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HUEBINGER'S MAP AND GUIDE 

FOR 

OMAHA-DENVER 
TRANS-CONTiNENTAL ROUTE 

WITH SUPPLEMENT SHO\A/ING 

OVERLAND TRAIL. 

Connecting the Omaha-Denver Trans-Continental Route at Lincoln with the Waubonsie 

Trail at Nebraska City 

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Copyright 1911 by M> HUEBINGEE, C. E. 



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OMAHA-DENVER 
GOOD ROAD ASSOCIATION 



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OFFICERS 

J. E. Davis, President Sutton, Nebr. 

W. A. Taylor, Treasurer Hastings, Nebr. 

Geo. E. Parisoe, Secretary Minden, Nebr. 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

Dr. J. M. Prime Oxford, Nebr. 

Frank Hacker Friend, Nebr. 

G. E. Parisoe Minden, Nebr. 

W. A. Taylor Hastings, Nebr. 

J. E. Davis Sutton, Nebr 

VICE PRESIDENTS 

J. V. Beghtol Hastings, Nebr. 

S. A. Searle _ Omaha, Nebr. 

0. C. Morton Nebraska City, Nebr. 

Charles Stuart Lincoln, Nebr. 

F. Hacker Friend, Nebr. 

W. P. Wallace Exeter, Nebr. 

G. Phillips Harvard, Nebr. 

R. Clearman...- Minden, Nebr. 

J. M. Prime Oxford, Nebr. 

H. E. Erickson Holdrege, Nebr. 

S. L. Patterson Arapahoe, Nebr. 

A. Barnett McCook, Nebr- 

J. O. Hardy Stratton, Nebr. 

G. Y. Kittle Palisade, Nebr. 

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Professor Cliatburn 



Mr. J. E. Davis 



The Omaha-Denver-Trans-Continental Route Association was 
formed the sixteenth of May, 1911, at a meeting of the represen- 
tatives of seventeen Nebraska counties, held at Holdrege, Nebr. 
There were fifty-two delegates present. Mr. J. E. Davis, of Sut- 
ton, Nebr., who was elected President, had been one of the lead- 
ing movers of this part of a great trans-continental highway, 
and his selection to the high office he holds was a just recognition 
of the service he had performed for the State and the West in 
general by taking a leading part in the agitation for good roads. 
The meeting at Holdrege was really the first good roads 
meeting ever held in the State of Nebraska, and the calling of it 
was due, in a large measure, to the activity and interest of the 
Commercial Clubs of Hastings and Minden, Nebraska, as well as 
that of the city in which the convention was held. The call for the gathering was 
sent out by Mr. G. E. Parisoe of Minden. The meeting was a very large one, for the 
reason that there were many there who were not delegates, in addition to the number 
of those who had been regularly selected to represent the several counties through which, it was proposed, 
the road should pass. Dr. J. M. Prime, of Oxford, and W. A. Taylor, of Hastings, it should be noted, 
were very active in behalf of the convention and for the general project of good roads. 

Perhaps the delegates to the convention and the other good roads workers of the 'State of Nebraska 
feel themselves as much under obligation to Mr. C. P. Allen, Chairman of the Highway Commission of the 
State of Colorado, who was present on behalf of his state, and was able to advise, from extensive informa-' 
tion, just where the road ought to be routed. As an official of the State of Colorado, 
charged with the expenditure in a judicious and scientific manner 
of over half a million dollars annually, he had become a practical 
road builder, with a first hand knowledge of conditions of all 
sorts. He had, moreover, taken the pains to examine all the 
routes proposed for the road and strongly recommended the adop- 
tion of the one finally chosen. 

After Mr. Davis had been chosen President of the State Good 
Roads Association, Mr. W. A. Taylor, cashier of the First Na- 
tional Bank of Hastings, was elected treasurer, and Mr. Parisoe 
of Minden, already mentioned as having sent out the call for the 
meeting, was chosen secretary. Mr. Davis is the President of the 
Sutton National Bank of Sutton, Nebr. A Vice President for 
Mr. Searie each of the seventeen Counties traversed in Nebraska was named, Mr. w. a, Taylor 

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Mr. C. P. AUen 



and after the route had been decided upon, the convention ad- 
journed amid great enthusiasm. The matter of an official inspec- 
tion of the route was left in the hands of the President and also 
that of arranging for the issuing of a guide. In the latter mat- 
ter, his investigations led him to make a contract with the Iowa 
Publishing Company of Des Moines, by whom the present book 
was issued. 

It was in the morning of Tuesday, July 18th, 1911, that 
President J. E. Davis, of the State Good Roads Clubs and the head 
of the Omaha-Denver Trans-Continental Road organization; S. A. 
Searle, of Omaha, representing the Commercial Club and the Ak- 
Sar-Ben of that city; Joe Long, President of the Blue Grass Road 
Association in his state, and Editor of the Osceola (Iowa) Sen- 
tinel, and H. S. Davis, of Fremont, Iowa, were ready to make the start on the long journey to Denver, and 
took their seats in cars in front of the Henshaw hotel, in Omaha. In the Iowa Publishing Company's Official 
mapping car were H. Huebinger, C. E., Secretary of tlie Company, and Head of the Technical Department; 
L. M. Maynard, Publicity Agent, and C. R. Babcock, of Shenandoah, Iowa, expert photographer. There 
were also two other cars in line as the party left Omaha, one belonging to Mr. Sprague, of Omaha, and the 
other to Mr. Garroute of Lincoln, Nebr. 

Through the industry and interest of President Davis, the coming of the party had been carefully 
heralded in advance and even the time of arrival in each town and city was known so definitely that it 
was possible to hold a public reception when the party came. At 
many places the local band was out playing patriotic music when 
the official party came in sight and there were great gatherings 
not only of the people of the several towns, but of the country- 
side as well. 

Good Roads meetings were held all along the line, and usually 
lasted an hour to an hour and a half, President Davis, Mr. Searle 
and Mr. Long making the principal addresses up to the time Lin- 
coln was reached. Here Prof. G. R. Chatburn of the University 
of Nebraska, representing not only that institution, but the Lin- 
coln Commercial Club, joined the party and from that time on 
was one of the principal speakers in the cause of good roads. 

Even those who were in touch with the movement and under- 
stood the deep hold it had taken upon the minds of the people of 
Nebraska were surprised at the great demonstrations that marked Mr. g. e. Parisoe 





Pres. Davis an* 
Mr. Babcock 




OreetiDK Prof. Cllnthllrn 
The Road Near Sulton 



than to the further development 
of railroad facilities, since the 
railroads were well aware of what 
they needed to do end would in 
due time perform their part of the 
tasks of taking all products to markets that could be offered. 

Many strong talks for good roads, in fact, many of the most telling 
ones, were made by residents along the line of the road, who were called 
upon by their fellow townsmen to add to the remarks made by the visi- 
tors. It was found that the hostility with which the automobile had 
been regarded in some localities had entirely disappeared in view of the 
fact that so many farmers and townspeople have them, and in view of 
tlie further fact that everj^one acknowledges that the automobile has 
had a great deal to do with arousing a desire for better roads, and 
that the needs of the tourists have aided materially in creating a gen- 
eral sentiment for better highways. As President Davis is fond of say- 
ing in his good road speeches, a fortune may easily be spent in adver- 
tising the resources of a locality, but there will be little success in 
bringing homeseekers and other investors, unless it can be pointed out 
that steps have been and still are being taken to bring about a better- 



the progress of this party on its way from Lincoln to Denver. Every- 
where the City Councils, Commercial Clubs and kindred organizations 
had prepared fitting receptions for the visitors and many of the towns 
were gaily decorated in honor of the occasion. This state of mind was 
taken as an indication of a lively appreciation on the part of people 
along the line of road in the matter of the good the route will be to 
them, and the towns in which they reside. 

The speakers at the numerous road meetings held during the ten 
days' trip argued strongly for continued effort and ependiture to main- 
tain the main east and west road across the state and the other roads 
in each vicinity. They pointed out that the movement for good roads 
was one of the most practical ones before the people; that the problem 
was how to get the products of the farms more quickly and cheaply 
and surely from the farm to the railroad, and that additional profit to 
the farmer and incidentally to others lay in the solution of this part of 
the transportation problem, rather 




Adolie Ruin at Beverly 
Homesteaders Are Frequently Met 



ment of the roads, over which the products of the farm are to be 
hauled. 

The people along the line of the route seemed to realize keenly that 
the opening of the trans-continental route meant the opening of a high- 
way by means of which the capitalist, lookin,?: for land investments, can 
get into the heart of one of the great agricultural portions of Nebraska, 
and of the entire West, for that matter. 

As will be seen by reference to the m»ps elsewhere in this book, 
the Omaha-Denver-Trans-Continental Route passes through Lincoln, 
Friend, Exeter, Fairmont, Sutton, Hastings, Minden, Oxford, McCook, 
Imperial, Holyoke, Sterling, Fort Morgan and Denver, as well as a 
number of intermediate points . All the way from Omaha it is marked 
vdth white bands and it has been officially designated by the Eastern 
Touring associations as an official route on the way across the conti- 
nent. The undertaking has been well carried out by the Association of 
which President Davis is the Head_, and, in Colorado, the State Highway 
Commission has taken up the project in such a spirit that it is certain 
to make a noted stretch of road out of that part of the route lying 

within the boundaries of the Cen- 




An Attentive Audience At Wauneta Ad- 
dressed By Mr. Se.irle. — An Ocean 
To Ocean Pedestrian. 




"The Character of the Soil is Such — 

That It Is Not AtTeeted Greatly 

By Weather Conditions." 



tennial State. Colorado has state 

aid for reads and expends in this 
way as a State, in the neighbor- 
hood of $600,000 per annum. A 

bond issue of $1,000,000 is to be voted on as an additional amount avail- 
able for roads. The expenditure of the sums the state appropriates is 
in the hands of the Highway Commission, whose head is Mr. C. P. Al- 
len, who was present at theHoldrege meeting and was influential in de- 
termining the routing of the road. He has personally given the matter 
attention in his state and the commonwealth, as well as the several 
localities, are doing their part in the making oi: an admiiable road. 

Along this entire route of 632 miles there are only one or two 
neighborhoods in which the road officers are still asleep on the good 
roads movement and there is no doubt that unless they wake up quickly, 
there will be new men in their places after the next election. Where 
nothing was done by the officials of a locality, the business men took 
the matter up by private subscription and raised money to hake care of 



the local part of the route, and saw to it that the work was promptly 
done. 

Those who have been promoting this movement for a trans-conti- 
nental road, in Nebraska at least, are of the opinion that there should 
be more attention paid by the voter and the legislators of the State 
Assembly to the question of road laws and their administration. It is 
said that the laws are not adequate at present and that the system in 
vogue is such that there is tremendous waste and in some cases, it is 
feared, not a little graft. 

The natural conditions in Nebraska favor roads equal to those any- 
where in the world. The character of the soil is such that it can be 
made into a road that is not affected greatly by weather conditions, and 
along the Omaha-Denver-Trans-Continental Route there is not, at any 
place, sand enough to make the going heavy. 

As an advertisement of the states through which it passes, and 

especially of the country along th>' 




On the Slate Line at Sundown. 




Ex-Governor SbaUenbcrger at Holdreg 
— Our Slidland Map Car. 



line of the road, this route is one of 
the best things possible. It shows 

enterprise and it brings directly to the attention of tourists what sort 
of a country it is and what its possibilities are. Besides, the mainten- 
ance of such an association as that which is behind this road makes for 
better acquaintance and more complete understanding on the part of 
the committees along the line, one with another. The good roads meet- 
ing is also bringing together in a friendly way a large nun>ber of prom- 
inent men of many communities, all of them interested in this practical 
and constructive work of making better roads. 

It is believed that this map and guide, which has been prepared at 
the request and under the direction of the Omaha-Denver-Trans-Conti- 
nental Route Association, will do as much as any other one thing to 
bring the road to the attention of those who will make use of it. Tour- 
ing to the West is getting to be a common recreation in the East, and 
Denver is naturally an objective point. This is, of course, the road to 
take for Denver, no matter how one has reached Omaha or Lincoln 
from the East. There is only one great road across Nebraska and this 
ig it. There are half a dozen competing roads across Iowa from river 
to river. 

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The Start and Ibinish. 



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From the point of view of the Publishing Company which issued 
this book, the task has been a most pleasurable one, according to its 
officers, one of whom, Mr. H. Huebinger, the head of the Tech- 
nical Department of the Iowa Publishing Company, made the 
trip. The enthusiasm of the promoters of the road and of 
the people along the line was infectious and Mr. Huebinger and his assist- 
ants returned to their work rooms with the desire to get out, if pos- 
sible, a better booklet than had ever been attempted before. There is 
reason to think that they have succeeded. 

There is no doubt that what has been done in 1911 on this road 
and in the preparation of this guide book is but an earnest of what is 
to come. A great permanent road is some day to stretch away across 
Nebraska and into Colorado, along this route, and it will not take much 
work and money to put the present road in iust such condition. 

THE PUBLISHERS. 





By Pres. Davis. 



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OMAHA 




Situated in the very heart of the great corn and wheat 
belts of the west, and guarding the entrance to the west with 
the watchful eye of an eagle, Omaha is well located to furnish 
a division point for the great automobile highways which con- 
nect the extreme east with the west. 

In placing a division point, the promoters of the great 
highways wisely took into consideration the advantages of the 
western metropolis. And indeed they could not have selected 
\vith better judgment, for Omaha affords facilities in this direc- 
tion that could not well be refused. 

With a population of 126,000 live and energetic people in 
i).,uc-ii.~ i:...,niy c.uri ii,.u~i- its own confines and 75,000 additional within fifteen minutes' 

17(1, .M,,! r„r„„i„ ride, by street cars, of the very heart of the city, Omaha offers 

to the visitor a truly metropolitan aspect in every sense. 

As an educational center, Omaha ranks high among the 
leading cities of the country, with its universities, public and parochial schools, its colleges and private in- 
stitutions. Thirty-five graded schools, costing from $70,000 to $120,000 each, and a high school build- 
ing, which has been erected at a cost of a million and one-half dollars, 
are an expression of the aims and desires of the citizens. Fourteen 
Catholic churches, ten parochial schools, and four academies, which have 
an enrollment of more than 4,000, are silent evidence in Omaha's ac- 
tivitjf in educational lines. 

The Young Men's Christian Association, with a membership of 
2,145, and the Young Women's Christian Association, with a member- 
.ship of 3,500, are both housed in magnificent homes, which stand as 
monuments to the citizens. 

Omaha has a public library, which contains 90,000 volumes, and a 
rare collection of coins, curios, manuscripts and antiquaries of every 
conceivable description. 

A new court house, erected at a cost of one and one-quarter million 
dollars, stands in the very heart of the city, towering so that the eye of 
the transient is immediately secured. 

The financial standing and stability of the ten national banks in the 

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Omaha Clearing House are shown by the confidence reposed by 
the citizens. The aggregate surplus and capital total of these 
depositories is $8,290,000, while the deposits reach the enormous 
total of $60,000,000. The bank clearings for the past year 
were more than $900,000,000, which showed a gain of 267 per 
cent in the last ten years. 

In every direction is the progress shown. It is general. 
With the close of 1911 the city has paved streets of one hun- 
dred and forty-five miles, which represent an aggregate outlay 
of $8,500,000; 210 miles of sewers, costing $2,857,000; 340 miles 
of sidewalks, costing $1,350,000; thirty miles of boulevards and 
highways, and thirteen parks, which contain 1,500 acres. Omaha 
justly and proudly claims the best paved streets in the business 
district of any city in the United States. 

The Omaha water works plant, owned by the city, is one of 




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The system was taken over by the city at a cost of $8,250,000. Included 
in the system are 240 miles of mains, 22,200 water services, 2,035 hy- 
drants, and 12,400 meters. The pumping capacity at Florence, the main 
station, is fifty-two million gallons daily. The daily consumption of 
water aggregates 20,000,000 gallons. 

Relative to vital statistics, Omaha has the lowest death rate, with 
the exception of three cities, according to the United States government 
report; the largest refinery and smelter for fine ores in the world; a 
lower per cent of illiteracy among its students in schools than any other 
city; a low tax rate of one and one-half cents for all purposes; the 
greatest butter factory in the world; the second largest corn market; 
the third largest packing center in the world; the largest freight termin- 
al in the world; annual bank clearings of $900,000,000; the main United 
States Army Signal Station; a general supply depot for the United 
States Army; home of the United States Indian Warehouse; largest 
"Feeder" cattle market in the world; one of the lai'gest Auditoriums in 
the west, which seats 10,000; a million dollar court house and a million 
dollar high school building; the home of one hundred churches. 

In the business world, Omaha has asserted itself as a center of 
commercial activity, both in manufacturing and wholesaling. 

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ASHLAND, NEBRASKA 







street Secne 



The town of Ashland, Nebraska, is located in the southeast corner of 
Saunders County, on the main line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy 
Railroad, thirty miles west of Omaha, the Metropolis of the State, and 
twenty-five miles northeast of Lincoln, the capital. Its location is one 
of the most advantageous in the state. It is also the southern terminal 
for the Great Northern Railroad to Sioux City, Iowa, and to Da- 
kota and Minnesota points. In addition to the two roads mentioned, it 
has the Schuyler (Nebraska) branch of the Burlington Railroad, con- 
necting with the main line of the road at Oreopolis, near Plattsmouth, 
Cass County, Nebraska. 

Transportation facilities — passenger and freight — are not excelled 
by any town of its size in the state. Mail service is all that could be 
desired — twenty-three mails a day east, west, north and south. Ashland 
is a money order office. We have telegraph (Western Union) and Express (Adams) Companies. Have two 
telephone exchanges, both with long distance connections — the Nebraska Telephone Company (or Bell's) and 
the Plattsmouth Telephone Company (or Independent). Have one first class hotel, two minor ones and sev- 
eral restaurants. We have a fine public park and good race track. We have electric lighting, municipal 
water works, well organized volunteer fire department and splendid public schools. Population in the neigh- 
borhood of 1,500. 

In churches, Ashland is well represented, having the Congregational, Episcopal, Christian, Methodist and 
Baptist. All have good memberships and employ able pastors. Besides our regularly organized churches 
we have the Mission, a non-denominational institution, which is doing good work. 

The Farmers and Merchants and the Ashland National Banks take care of 
the monetary affairs of the community. Both are solid, conservative financial 
institutions and are presided over by courteous and accommodating gentlemen. 
Ashland has fine water power in Salt, Wahoo and Clear Creeks; Platte 
River is less than two miles from town. At this writing a splendid new steel 
bridge — to be the best of its kind in the state — is under construction and 
nearing completion, at a point a mile and a half northeast of town. This bridge 
will be crossed by the Omaha-Denver Trans-Continental Road. Ashland has a 
large flour mill and two grain elevators. There are valuable stone quarries in 
the vicinity and the largest ice house in the world — belonging to the Svsdft 
Packing Company — is located here. 

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Hotel Selma 



Ashland has long had a public library, organized and sustained by the Woman's Club, which the town 
has outgrown, and through the untiring efforts of the members of the Club, a beautiful Carnegie library 
will be built in the near future, the contract for its construction having already been awarded. It will cost 
in the neighborhood of $10,000.00. 

The United States Government, for several years past, has maintained a rifle range north of town, 
where the regulars and state militia encamp for their annual rifle practice. Negotiations are now under 
way for the purchase of this tract and the permanent location of the range here. 

Ashland is a city of beautiful homes. A very small per cent of its citizens are renters and most of them 
! take a justifiable pride in beautifying their surroundings. Its business establishments are good, solid, up- 
to-date, and they are commensurate in size and stocks kept with the needs of the community. 

Ashland's citizenship is progressive, wide-awake and moral. There is no better place in the state in 
which to live, own a home and rear a family. 



MILFORD, NEBRASKA 



The tourist will find Milford, Nebraska, one of the most interesting 
points en route. It is situated on the west bank of the Big Blue River 
twenty miles west of Lincoln, and three hundred feet higher, at an ele- 
vation of 1,500 feet above sea level. The passing stranger will be im- 
pressed by the beauty of the location, the interesting surroundings, the 
adaptability of Milford as a place of rest and recreation, boating and 
fishing. 

The famous Shogo Springs flow from the stony bauKs of the Blue. 
They preserve with their memories the interesting Indian traditions, 
handed down from generation to generation three hundred years or 
more, of the dusky Pawnee maiden "Shogo," who presided over the 
"Medicine Waters," alleviating the sufferings of the wounded and fever 
stricken people of her father, the great chieftain, "Quenchauqua." The 
"Paleface" has commercialized the aqua pura until it is demanded from 
ocean to ocean and from the Dominion of Canada to the Panama Zone. 

The Quenchauqua mills, erected in 1866 at this point on the freight 
road leading from Nebraska City to Fort Kearney and the west, with 

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Shoso Litliia Si riDgs 



one run of 30-inch burrs endeavored to grind the grist of the pioneer settlers for 150 miles west and to 
supply the overland freighters. It has now grown into an exclusive corn product mill with a capacity of 3,000 
bushels per day, selling in car lots principally in the southern states, the great northwest and the Pacific 
coast. 

The Blue River Power Company has acquired the remainder of the "stone b-.;lt." With one large con- 
crete dam completed and another under construction, they will furnish power for manufacturers, electric 
lights, etc., to cities and villages along the Blue Valley. 

The Soldiers' Home is located at the southeast corner of the town on a beautiful elevation overlooking 
the Blue Valley, skirted by a forest of natural timber. It is an ideal home for the veteran Sol- 
diers and Sailors in their declining years. 

The State Industrial Home for unfortunate girls is situated one mile east 
of the village and is doing a grand and charitable work. It is one of the 
cleanest, neatest and best ordered of all the state institutions. 

The Congrfigational, Methodist and Evangelical Churches, together with 
the substantial high school, suggest the religious and educational trend of the 
Soidiirt iii.iuf town. 

With electric lights and water system installed, additional hotel and sanitarium facilities are in demand. 
The construction of the necessary buildings will be encouraged by the Commercial Club. The Club extends 
a hearty welcome to the traveler as he passes through the only Spring town along the line and assures him 
that he wll meet with every courtesy. 




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FRIEND 





Friend, Nebraska, is one of the principal business towns of the 
state, and has a population of fourteen hundred souls. Its location is on 
the main line of the Burlington 38 miles west of Lincoln. It has eight 
mail trains a day and also excellent train service. 

The Hotel Coronado is first class, has steam heat, light and water 
in all rooms. Miller's Hotel is also a good hostlery. Then there are 
Diebert's Cafe, and W. H. True & Co., restaurants where short orders 
are served. 

Naturally the tourist is interested in the garages of Friend. There 
are two well equipped places of this sort here. One of these, Kahm 
^ Bros., is the official A. A. A. Garage. This is one of the best institu- 
tions of the kind in the state. Heagney Auto Co. has 
plenty of room and excellent service. 

One of the interesting things about Friend is that there is a wild animal park near by 
on Turkey Creek, it is owned by Mr. J. W. Gilbert. Here one sees buffalo, elk and deer 
in their native state. Mr. Gilbert has set apart a large part of his farm foi- the benefit of 
these animals ,species which are so rapidly passing away in this counti-y. It is well 
worth the time of the tourist to make a side trip to visit this park. Mr. Gilbert makes 
all the comers welcome and is glad to have the public see his pets. He is one of Saline 
County's oldest s-jttlers, having located here in 1865. At the present time he has in his 
park fifty head of buffalo, elk and deer. 

The resources of this vicinity are largely in the value of the farm 
land, which is worth up to $150.00 an acre. The principal crops raised 
are wheat, corn and alfalfa. Friend, by the way, probably markets 
more fat hogs than any community of its size in the state, if not in the 
world. The soil here is very rich and in most years produces as much 
as any like body of land in the United States. The rainfall for a good 
many years has been ample for good crops. 

The people of Friend are very much devoted to their school system, 
and as a result of this interest and devotion on the part of the public 
the high school is considered one of the best in the state. It is an ac- 
credited high school; that is to say, its graduates enter without further 
examination the State University at Lincoln and all larger institutions 

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Gilbert Park 



of the United States. There is a new public school building with room for 500 students, which is very large, 
of course, for a town of this size. However, many pupils go to the Friend schools from ihe towns and coun- 
try around for a radius of 25 miles. 

There are six excellent churches and the social life of the comrnunity centers in these congregations. 

Theaters are well represented here and some of the best companies on the road make one-night stands 
here. The opera houses are the San Carlo and Warren's opera house. 

in the matter of public utilties there is good is good electric light and water service. Both of the 
plants furnishing these are owned by the city. 

Among other things in which the people of Friend and vicinity are greatly interested is horse racing 
rand there are famous races held here each year. The National Coursing Futurity has been held here for 
a number of years. _ . „ , „ , 

In the matter of public utilities there is good electric light and water service. Both of the 
Farmers Bank with a canital and surplus of $40,009.00, the First National Bank with a capital and surplus 
of $100,000.00 and the First Savings Bank with a capital and surplus of $12,500.00. The First National Bank 
occupies its new $30,000.00 fire proof building January 1st, 1912. 

One of the things which the tourist will note when he reaches Friend will be the beauty of the residen- 
tial part of the town. Probably Friend has more well kept lawns and beautiful homes than are found any- 
where in a town of this size. The town was originally settled by people who take great pride in their sur- 
roundings and have fine taste in matters of keeping their yards and their streets in good condition, ylso 
architecturally the town made a good start yearh ago, and the disposition has been to keep up the high s<ind- 

ard in this respect. ,. ^ ■,„■,, t^ ■ ^ ' 

No town nowadays considers itself on the map to stay unless it has a live Commercial Club. Frien does 
not take a back seat for any other city along the entire route of the Omaha-Denver Trans-ContinentalRoute 
in this regard. The Club has fine rooms, a membership of 150, and any matter that is of interest to te wel- 
fare of the city, or of this pai-t of the state, is taken up with enthusiasm by this organization. 



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Brown's Garage 



the state, 



FAIRMONT 

Midway between Lincoln and Hastings is the Burling- 
ton main junction point for central Nebraska. 

From here passengers and freight are distributed to the 
east, west, north, southeast and southwest. All trains stop 
here. 

This town IS perhaps the best equipped for the tourist 
of any inland Nebraska town. It has as fine a garage as there is in 
Conducted by one of the large Nebraska auto companies, the Brown Auto Co. 
\ Its restaurants and hotels are far above the average, possessing all modern 
\ conveniences which make for the tourist a com- 

fortable and homelike feeling. 

Its mercantile and banking facilities are on par with its 
competitors and in many respects excel the same. 

Population 1000 people. Fairmont is a city of clean streets. 
Handsome residences and beautiful trees, and well kept lawns 
indicate a high state of civic advancement. The most noteworthy 
feature of the city is its high school, This is set in a campus of 
two blocks, four blocks east of the business street. 
H!8h\hooi Fairmont is for GOOD ROADS. 




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SUTTON 



Sutton is one of those towns that can justly lay claim to the distinction of providing the requisites for 
a happy home life as well as the commercial opportunities desirable, mercantile, industrial or professional. 
Sutton is situated in Clay County, Nebraska, and that county is one of the choicest agricultural bodies of 
land in the region west of the Missouri River. Broad prairies that only gently roll, Ijut are always rolling 
extend in every direction from the town. The soil &f this part of the state is a vegetable loam, with a clay 
subsoil. 

The census of Sutton, according to the govern nent report for 1910, was a little less than 2,000. The 
town has had a steady growth, but has never had the boom that so many of the Nebraska towns have 




suffered from during some time in 
are ten churches in Sutton gives 
of the place. The Schools are 
public library. This year the 
building at a cost of $40,000. The 
and the quality of the water for 
ply is ample for fire protection, 
commodations for the making of 
the atmosphere of culture is also 
without remark that Sutton has 
the streets of the town, while so 
few, if any. One may walk along 
the shade of these trees. 
Sutton, two weekly newspapers, 
the best medical attention to those 
good hotels, a roller mill, an elec- 
one livery bam, besides every line 
ually found in a city of this size. 

The main line of the Burlington from Chicago to Denver passes through the city, and w^h its branches 
to Stromsburg on the North and Alma on the South, gives Sutton railroad facilities for reight and pas- 
senger service such as few towns are fortunate enough to possess. By means of the B-J^l'^Kton line the 
live stock market and the grain market are not far away. It is only a few hours' run einer to Omaha or 
St. Joseph. Sutton is 68 miles west of Lincoln, 123 miles west of Omaha, and 415 miles ast of Denver. 

The city can rightfully claim to be one of the automobile centers of the West. The'' are more than 125 

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street Scene 



their history. The fact that there 
an idea of the moral atmosphere 
good and there is a well equipped 
town is completing a new schorl 
town owns a fine water systen, 
drinking is good, while the sip- 
Thus it is to be seen that the ac- 
pleasant homes are here and that 
in Sutton. It should not pass 
abundance of shade trees along 
many of the Nebraska tows have 
miles of cement sidewallo under 
There are two good lanks in 
three elevators, one hos'ital with 
treated there, two gaages, two 
trie plant, three lumbe yards and 
of mercantile busines that is us- 



automobiles owned by residents of the city and farniers of the adjoining townships and each of these own- 
ers, together with all the other residents of the town, is an enthusiast for good roads. 

The people who first settled in and around the city were very largely of foreign birth and are of a 
very industrious character, and progressive as well in their ideas. They have made prosperity for themselves 
and for the community at large. In consequence in and around Sutton things always have the air of con- 
tent and abundance . The standard of education maintained by the families of the early settlers and of the 
later comers is a higher one than is usually found. Many of the young people have the benefit of higher 
education, and the study of scientific farming is one to which the whole of the countryside is devoted. It 
is literally true that two blades of grass have been made to grow where one only would grow formerly. 

In Clay County all agricultural products do well, except such as are not indigenous to the country. 
Wheat, corn and alfalfa are excellent crops. It is well known that Nebraska farms raise more wheat to the 
acre, on an average, than the farms of other states. Around Sutton is one of the parts of Nebraska where 
the yield is the heaviest. This is one of the reasons why the houses in the country are so fine and the barns 
so big and well built. 

Stock raising is also a rapidly growing industry of this part of the state and some of the most successful 
stock breeders in Nebraska are to be found in this locality. The enterprising farmers have found that 
there is nothing that makes money for them faster than a judicious combination of hogs and alfalfa, and 
they are all taking to the course of conduct that leads to success in this line. 

Altogether there is no finer town in the west for its size than Sutton, and it will repay any traveler 
to make a stay here long enough to examine into the reasons why the prosperity of the community is 
so great. 



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HARVARD 




Harvard, Clay County, Nebraska, is situated on the main line of 
the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad and the Hastings division 
of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad. It is 136 miles southwest from 
Omaha, 81 miles southwest of Lincoln and 16 miles east of Hastings. 
The population of Harvard is about 1,200, but it is a much better town 
than would be supposed from its size. Its cicizens are progressive and 
enterprising. 

Its educational facilities are most creditable and the schools have 
good buildings, equipment and teachers. There is a kindergarten as 
well as a high school, and the high school is accredited to the State Uni- 
versity and all of the colleges and academies of the state. The high 
school building is a model of its class. 

The people are of a religious disposition and the Congregational, 
Methodist, Christian, Episcopal, Catholic, German Evangelical, German 
Methodist, and German Reform churches are represented. 

The secret societies with lodges here are the Masons, Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Workmen, 
Woodmen, Modern Brotherhood, Grand Army, Relief Corps, Ladies of the G. A. R., Eastern Star, Royal 
Neighbors, Degree of Honor, Rebekahs, Highland Nobles and the Royal Highlanders. 

The to^vn is supported by a rich farming community. The city's public utilities are represented by two 
telephone exchanges— the Nebraska and Harvard Independent; two lighting and heating plants, one electric 
and the other gas, and the city maintains an excellent water system with mains reaching to all parts of 
the corporation and good facilities for fighting fire. 

Eight mail trains arrive and depart each day, except Sundays, and on that day there are six — three each 
way on the Burlington and two on the northwestern. > 

The citizens of the town and country alike are wide-awake on the good roads proposition, and a strong 
organization has been perfected to push things alorig on this line from now on to the end. 



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HASTINGS, NEBRASKA'S CENTRAL MARKET TOWN 

While traversing Nebraska's official route from Omaha to Denver, about one hundred fifty miles west 
of Omaha and three hundred tiin' y miles east of Denver, you will pass through a beautiful expanse of coun- 
try. The roads here are in ejo I'cnt condition and stretching as far as the eye can see in all directions are 
rolling fields of grain. On a cl.'Mi day, the horizon seems to be nowhere and you feel, indeed, that you are 
one of God's creatures. This is oim; of the brightest spots of Nebraska, a state that has forty-nine million 
acres of the richest soil in the wmM, is the third largest corn and sugar beet, and the fourth largest v^^heat 
producing state in the Union, x.hop^ egg crop alone tach year is worth more than Alaska's annual output 
of gold. In the heart of this i>ra:'i erous state is a beau; if ul little city of over twelve thousand inhabitants, 
often called the Queen City of th(> plains, on account of its many 

well paved streets, which have t)i i 
ing shaded by thousands of iuH 
industrious and hospitable cili- 
of great activities along commer- 
within their gates, 
old and many of the business men 
that were shipped from the city 
most enterprising citizens. En- 
many large stores, manufacturing 
and handsome buildings, you will 
claiming, "Why Is Hastings!" 
large Aver for shipping, and it is 
lake city nor a seaport, but after 
you will find that Hastings is 
sibilities of a vast territory — and 
commercial enterprises. 

supplying the trade of the immediate vicinity, but with the advent of the railroads, of which there are now 
four trunk lines and several branches, the advantage of this location for establishing a central market town 
for Nebraska and surrounding states became apparent, not only to the business men already located here), 
but to outside interests. This led to the establishment of wholesale houses and manufacturing enterprises 
which now employ hundreds of laborers and supply the trade for hundreds of miles in all directions because 
it can be reached by direct shipments. 

Notable among the larger institutions are a huge foundry and machine works, a large brewery andi 
artificial ice plant, a mill work factory, a grain bin and tank manufacturing establishment, a canning fac- 

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characteristics of boulevards, be- 
grown trees, and because of its 
zens who have found time, in spita 
cial lines, to welcome the stranger 

Hastings is thirty-eight years 
who sold the first bills of goods 
are still among the leading and 
tering the city and noting the 
establishments, well paved streets 
find it hard to refrain from ex- 
This is because you can find no. 
certain that Hastings is not a 
you have made a few inquiries 
founded on the agricultural pos- 
agriculture is the backbone of alii 

Hastings started as a center for 



tory, a packing plant, the largest harness factory in the State, cold storage houses, wholesale grocery- 
houses, commission houses, a creamery, a large flour mill, a wholesale candy factory and five of the larg- 
est cigar factories in the West, whose annual output exceeds that of any other city in Nebraska. 

One of the greatest assets the city has is its automobile industry. This has become the center of distri- 
bution of automobiles in a state rich in automobile possibilities on account of the excellent condition of the 
roads and the thrift and wealth of its citizens. There are seven garages, any one of which would be a 
credit to a city ten times as large as Hastings. Their equipments are the best and their workmen are 
experienced in every particular. 

The banking institutions in this city 
growth. They have extended liberal credit 
institutions and have established Hastings 
community in the State, 
stores that handle metropolitan merchan- 
well as their oulside appearance it is hard 
in a city many times larger. Hastings 
home owners than any other city of its 
available capital among its 

About two miles west of 
through Ingleside, Nebraska's 
fine drives and shaded paths, its 

The city has a live Cham- 
exclusive of Omaha and Lin- 
a paid secretary who devotes 
the business interests of the 
work of the Chamber of Com 




have been a great factor in its 
to deserving local commercial 
as the third largest banking 
There are numerous retail 
dise and from their inside, as 
for one to believe that he is not 
has among its citizens more 
size in the State and more 
business men. 

the city limits, the route passes 
Hospital for Insane, with its 
well kept buildings and its beautiful lawns, 
ber of Commerce, recently organized, and, 
coin, is the only city in the State to employ 
all of his time to the work of promoting 
city. It is proposed in connection with the 
merce to develop in the near future a City 



Plan which will insure the future growth of Hastings along the right lines and will make of this city, not 
only an ideal place in which to live, but a profitable place to visit and secure information as to how to build 
a city. 

One of the important departments of the Chamber of Commerce is the Good Roads Department. Hast- 
ings has the distinction of being the place where the agitation for the Omaha-Denver Trans- Continental 
Highway was started and the preliminary work to secure the same was pushed. This work, so well started, 
is being continued so that even now when you visit Hastings you can take side-trips into the surrounding 
country on the best roads of the Route, where automobiling is a real pleasure and where long trips are a 
matter of but moments instead of hours. 

You are welcome to Hastings and we hope you will take the time, while here, to visit our merchants and 

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see the stores, call upon our city officials and, in fact, "see Hastings." We like our city; we are proud of 
it; and we want to show you why. The Chamber of Commerce has commodious club vooms and you are at 
liberty to make them your headquarters while here. Call on or address the secretary for a souvenir book 
telling the story of our city's progress. 



JUNIATA 

Juniata, Nebraska, is located on the divide between the Platte River on the north and the Little Blue 
River on the south. It is 157 miles west of Omaha; 103 miles west of Lincoln and 380 miles east of 
Denver, Colo., on the official route of the Omaha- Denver Automobile Line. 

The town is situated on the main line of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway from_ Chicago to 
Denver, in direct connection with all points on the Pacific Coast and points east to the Atlantic Coast; also 
on the Missouri Pacific Railroad southeast to St. Joseph, Kansas City and St. Louis. The Adams and Wells- 
Fargo Express Companies do business on these lines, and the Western Union Telegraph Company. Nine 
mail trains daily east and west; one north and south. Four rural delivery routes supply daily mail to the 
surrounding country. 

The Bell and Independent Telephone Companies have lines local and long distance in all directions and 
to all points. ! 

The business of Juniata is represented as follows: The Bank of Juniata associated with the First Na- 
tional Bank of Hastings, Nebr.; a four-story flour mill with 60 barrels capacity daily; two grain elevators, 
40,000 bushels capacity that ship yearly 250 cars of wheat, corn and other small grains and 40 cars of hogs 
and cattle; two general stores; one grocery and two grocery and restaurants combined; hardware; drugs; 
millinery; harness shop; two butcher shops; two barber shops; agricultural implement dealers; well digging, 
pump and windmill concern; two coal dealers; lumber yard; newspaper and printing office; postoffice and 
hotel; two blacksmith shops, garage and automobile repairs; livery stable and feed barns; an electric light 
plant for the town and citizens. ( 

The following fraternal orders are represented here: I. O. 0. F., Rebekah, Masonic, M. W. A., K. P., 
and the G. A. R. and Relief Corps. There are three churches, Methodist, Baptist and Church of the Brethren. 

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Juniata has a fine two-story brick High School Building and a one-story brick building for the primary 
grades. _ Also quite a number of comfortable dwellings with beautiful lawns. 

Juniata is located on undulating prairie of purely agricultural land and for six miles on either side 
can be found as fine farming land as any in the state of Nebraska or any other state, and for the 40 years 
since it was considered a part of the American Desert, it has been wonderfully productive. The citizens of 
Juniata are composed of modern Americans who maintain excellent schools, good churches and all civic 
societies. It has a good climate and excellent facilities for travel, trades and commerce with all sections 
of the United States. 

It has been but a ittle over 40 years ago when the entire country for rhiles around was a vast prairie, 
the home of the buffalo and the hunting grounds of the savage Indian. 

It being along the route of the Oregon Trail and the "Gold Seekers" of '49, many a harrowing tale could 
be told of the depredations of Irdians, but the buffalo has disappeared and the Indians have vanished, and 
in this short tife the vast plains has been converted into homes of a prosperous, thriving, happy and con- 
tented people second to none. 



NOTE— See article on Oregon Traji. 



FUNK 

Situated on the main line of the Burlington, 200 miles west of Omaha, on the Trans-Continental 
Road, is a village of 200 people, surrounded by a rich and as well improved country as the sun shines on 
anywhere, whom nature has provided with the best of roads. It has the best store buildings, filled with 
the most complete stocks of merchandise of any town of its size in the State, bar none. It has shipped 
465 cars of grain, 300 cars of live stock and paid over $75,000.00 in railroad freight in one year. It has a 
good school, a good church and parsonage, well maintained. Its merchants are wide-awake, and abreast 
of the times, are aggressive and progressive in their various lines. The glad hand is always extended, 
and you are cordially invited to stop, AND BE SHOWN. 

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MINDEN 



Minden, the County Seat of Kearney County, the wealthiest city of its size in the 
State, is situated on the Omaha-Denver line of the Burlington Railway, and is the ter- 
minus of the Kansas City and Omaha Railway. Located in the heart of some of the 
best agricultural and grazing land of the state of Nebraska, she has enjoyed an ever in- 
creasing valuation. In the past few years, the city now with a population of 2,100, has 
been marvelously improved and beautified, until it is now recognized as one of the 
foremost attractive and modern of all the small cities in the State. 

Many large and well builded stores and residences have been erected. The down- 
town district is well arranged. The city enjoys a modern and developed system of 




Ilmnphrey lintel 



electric lighting. The hotel accommodations 
ages, a supply station and a vulcanizing plant, 
center of the County, as containing two thor- 
ness, and two old and tested national banks with 

The best flour mill of western 
any in West Nebraska, several 
tors are located in Minden. The 
are equipped with competent 
tus. Church buildings equal to 
the worshippers of the city and 
ing the Presbyterian church, 
The Court House, costing $125,- 
and finished in Tennessee marble, 
in the center of a 
The merchants 




County Court House 




are ample and there are three equipped gar- 
The city is especially strong as the retail 
oughly edited papers, a strong insurance busi- 
large deposits. 

Nebraska, a brick yard equal to 
. substantial coal and grain eleva- 

splendid schools and a High School 
teachers and up-to-date appara- 
any and excelled by none house 
community, the best of these be- 
which enjoys a grand pipe organ. 
000, is builded of Bedford stone 
The building is choicely situated 
well gardened public square, 
are an organized boosting club, 



Presbyterian Church 



and have been instrumental in producing one of the best County Fairs in the 
West. In addition to this, the merchants have been largely responsible for the 
organizing of the Omaha-Denver Trans-Continental Highway. It was upon the 
call of a State meeting, issued by these merchants and bankers, that the 
Omaha-Denver Trans-Continental Highway Association was organized. 

All the roads which lead into Minden are like boulevards. Minden is the 
terminus of a great and good road called the Sun Flower Trail, which con- 
nects south to the Santa Fe Trail, to Kansas City and to points in southwest- 
ern Kansas. 



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Eight miles west of Minden on the Omaha-Denver Trans-Continental Route is located the largest Swed- 
ish settlement in the wsst, a well ordered and prosperous community. 

Trees are abundant, lawns well kept, streets well sprinkled to allay dust, the elevation 2,196 feet 
above sea level; the air is clean and bracing. There is plenty of opportunity for duck, prairie chicken, grouse, 
geese shooting in season. On an average day during the touring season, 20 to 25 touring automobiles put 
up at the hotels. 

Minden is a hustling, progressive little city. It has a live County Good Roads Club which does things. 
It has special interests for automobilists from the fact of its having so many miles of elegant roads, that 
stretch out like boulevards. 



HOLDREGE 

Holdrege, Nebraska, is one of the principal cities on the line of the Omaha-Denver Trans-Continental 
Route, and is widely known in the middle west as the "Magic City" on account of its rapid growth. It is situ- 
ated in the middle of one of the best farming sections in the state of Nebraska and is the principal shipping 
point for that part of the commonwealth for grain and stock. 

Holdrege has first class hotels, up-to-date automobile garages and really magnificent stores. In short, 
it is an up-to-date city and its people are very proud of it. 

Holdrege is like most of the larger towns in the west — very ambitious for manufacturing industries 
and for growth in population. It is situated on the main line of the B. & M. railroad. 

The city is very much devoted to education and the schools are among the best in the state, the high 
school particularly ranking as one of the best. 

The churches of the cicy are housed in fine buildings and the congregations are large. The social life of 
the community very largely centers in the churches. 

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ATLANTA 




Atlanta, Nebraska, a village of 300 population, on the main line of 
the C, B. & Q. between Chicago and Denver, is located in one of the 
finest farming regions and is, therefore, a fine grain market. The town 
is lighted with electricity; it also has water works. The town is incor- 
porated; has ample hotel accommodations for a town of its size. All 
lines of business are well represented. School privileges are good. They 
carry 10th grade work. 



A Piece of Scenery West of Atlanta 



OXFORD 



r^ 



Oxford is the only town between Omaha and Denver that has four- 
teen passenger and mail trains daily. All fast trains stop at this point 
because it is located at the junction of the Burlington from Chicago to 
Denver with the main line from St. Louis to Denver. 

The automobile tourist will really enjoy the change of scenery the 
moment he arrived within sight of this 
beautiful valley of the famous Republican 
River. Oxford is centrally located in this 
scenic valley — the land of wheat, corn and 
alfalfa. 

The inhabitants of this beautiful valley 
are of a thriving, energetic and industrious 
character and very largely give their at- 
tention to farming and the raising of hogs 
and cattle. 

The hotel accommodations at Oxford 
are excellent and tourists vdll be well advised 




Early Days in Furnas County 




night's stop. 



to make this a place for g 



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ARAPAHOE 

Arapahoe, Nebraska, a little city of 1,000 population, is located on the main line of the C, B. & Q. Rail- 
way, midway between Omaha ?.nd Denver, in the fertile valley of the Republican River. Progressive in 
every respect, Arapahoe has one of the best vyater and electric light systems known to cities of its size in 
the State. Here are located forty-five business houses, including two stable banks, and the largest flour- 
ing mill in the entire valley. This mill and three elevators are able to handle only a small portion of the 
vast wheat and corn product of the north side of Furnas County, of which Arapahoe is the principal city. 
With its large stores, and pleasant residence district, Arapahoe is a desirable place for the home seeker. 

At an elevation of 2,173 feet, the air is pure and invigorating; the nights are always ideal. Pure, clear 
water is obtained at moderate depths. The soil of Southwest Nebraska, and especially near Arapahoe, makes 
the finest natural roads, the joy of autoists. They are in good condition the year 'round and maintained at a 
nominal expense. Tourists will find adequate garage and hotel accommodations; the leading hotel and gar- 
age are within a half block of each other. 

HOLBROOK 

Holbrook is a little city of five hundred people located on the main line of the Burlington Railroad from 
Chicago to Denver and from St. Louis to Denver. It is a hustling little place in the midst of a fine farming 
community, with Deer Creek, a beautiful wooded stream, just to the east and the Republican River immedi- 
ately on the south. i 

A fact of historical importance to the inhabitant and mayhap to the trav- 
eler as well, is that it was here just east of the bridge which now spans 
Deer Creek Sind almost at the place where the Trans-Continental Highway 
now passes, that I. B. Burton, the oldest settler, turned the first furrow ever 
plowed in Furnas County. In honor of Mr. Burton, the first postoffice was 
called Burton's Bend and the voting precinct still bears that name. The 
town is well represented in all business lines, including hotel and garage, and 
contains many beautiful homes surrounded by fine trees and lavms. An ex- street Scene Holbrook 

cellent steel bridge costing over eleven thousand dollars spans the river just 

south cf town and gives ready access to a beautiful natural park, which is utilized for camp meetings, pic- 
nics and celebrations. 

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CAMBRIDGE 



Cambridge, Nebraska, beautifully situated in the valley of the river, 
is one of the best good road towns between the oceans. This year the 
drainage from uplands north have played havoc with roads, but the next 
morning the auto road within their district was made comfortably pass- 
able for the most exacting tourist. A great deal of credit is due this 
body of business men when it is known that when one flood did $7,000 
damage to city property, they first repaired their roads. 

Cambridge has electric lights, water works and modern sewerage 
system and is surrounded by a fine farming country. 




Model Concrete Bridgre Near Cambrldire 



INDIANOLA 



Indianola, Nebraska, is located on the main line of the Burlington Railroad, nearly midway between 
Omaha and Denver. It is in the grand valley of the Republican River, where corn, wheat and alfalfa are 
raised. It is accessible from all directions by good roads. Has a population of about 1,000. Has a good 
steam grist mill 75 barrels capacity. Has a fine brick High School building costing $15,000.00. 

Has valuable ochre deposits, one hotel and two restaurants, two state banks, two public halls and three 
good church buildings. The center of the best stock raising section in the world. Has good stores, livery 
bams, shops, etc., and good moral, intelligent, prosperous people. 

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McCOOK 



Before the advent of civilization, southwestern Nebraska, viath its numer- 
ous streams and luxuriant grasses, was a favorite haunt of game . The old set- 
tlers tell of a time, in the not distant past, when buifalo blackened the prairies, 
when elk were found in the canons, when deer broused along the creeks, and 
antelope grazed on tha highlands. Water fowls covered the ponds in spring 
and fall, and wild turkeys abounded in the timber. The game attracted the In- 
dians, who (;ame here in pursuit — the Pawnees from the northeast, the Sioux 
from Dakota, the Chevennos from the Black Hills, the A.rapahoes from the 
western plains and the Comanches from the south. This region was the bat- 
tleground of the plain's tribes and evidences of their warfare are frequently 
found. 

McCook, the County Seat of Red willow 
4,000, is the metropolis cf southwestern 
tween Hastings, Nebraska, and Denver, 
400 miles. It is situated at an elevation of 
the valley of the' Republican. The view 
fringed stream threading the fertile bot- 
beyond, is beautiful and inspiring. Irriga- 
of the valley, where wealth in the 



. f I •■;■'' ' - - 



County, with its 



fruits and vegetable, is produced 
When the Burlington Railroad 
summer of 1882, the site of Mc- 
principal division station between 
tains. The company has shops 
extensive terminal facilities, water 
ter buildings. Here all train and 
the time changes, the trains run- 
mountain time. 




Park and Carnegie Library 



Central Higli School 

population of 

Nebraska, the largest town be- 
Colorado, a distance of more than 
2,500 feet, on the hills overlooking 
from the higher levels, of the tree 
toms and of the range of hills 
tion aids nature in making a garden 
form of alfalfa, sugar beets, grain, 
in large amounts, 
was extended to Denver in the 
Cook was selected as the location for the 
the Missouri River and the Rocky Moun- 
here for the repair of locomotives and cars, 
and electric planes and divir.jon headquar- 
engine crews are changed, and here, too, 
ning east on Central time and w«st on 



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McCook possesses ample and excellent hotel accommodations, and its high altitude, 
its healthful climate and its location will make it a convenient and agreeable place 
for tourists to spend the night. 



Coniineri'ial Club 



CULBERTSON, NEBRASKA 



Culbertson, Hitchcock County, Nebraska, has a population of 580 and is situated at the junction of the 
Republican and Frenchman Rivers, on the main line of the C, B. & Q. R. R. There are eight mail trains 
daily. The town is located in one of the most feitile valleys in the State; there are three general stores, two 
hardware, a bank, printing office, a first class hotel and good restaurant; automobile garage one block north 
of auto road; one of the best graded schools in Western Nebraska and seven churches. 

The Culbertson Irrigating ditch, the third largest in the State, runs just north of town and is forty miles 
long, watering 10,000 acres of fine farming lanci. This ditch taps the Frenchman River at Palisade, 24 miles 
west. The soil here is very productive, sugar beets, wheat, corn, alfalfa and all cereals make rapid growth. 
The Nebraska Experimental Farm is situated just west of town and can be seen from the auto road. The 
annual shipment of sugar beets from this point will amount to over two hundred cars per year. The old 
Fremont Trail passes through the center of the town. 



PALISADE, NEBRASKA 



Palisade, Nebraska, is situated on the County Line, between Hitchcock and Hayes Counties, and is in 
the Frenchman River Valley and on the Imperial Bianch of the C, B. & Q. Railroad. 

It has a population of 400, with a perfectly developed water system and with 180 horse power electric 



light system. Has a fine pressed brick school building, three churches, four general merchandise stores, two 
iiardware stores, two conieccioaery stores, one restaurant, one hotel, one rooming house, iwo lumber yards, 
two millinery stores, two meat markets, two blacKsmith shops, two livery stables, two telephone offices, two 
elevators, one bank, one garage and repair snop and one drug store. 

The valley is all under irrigation, with allalfa as the principal crop, and with many other advantages 
not found elsewhere. 



WAUMEf A, NEBRASKA 



Waoneta, Nebraska, 363 miles west of Omaha, Nebraska, and 265 
miles east of Denver, Colorado, The tourist traveling over the Omaha- 
Denver Good Roads Route will pass through the beautiful village of 
Wauneta, Nebraska. Wauneta, an Indian name from the Sioux lan- 
guage, meaning falling water, uerives its name from its location by 
the magnihcent falls of the Frenchman River. These falls aevelop- 
ing the greatest natural water power in ihe State of Nebraska were 
once the favorite camping grounds of the Pawnees, Sioux and other 
western Indian hunting parties. 

Wauneta is a bustling little city of some 400 inhabitants, with its 
shaded streets, electric lights, city water works, substantial business 
houses, beautiful homes, affords a comfortable and inviting resting 
place for tourists. Its beautiful snaded lake will invite the tourist to 
loiter and tnjoy its splendid fishing. Here the traveler will find com- 
fortable, well conducted hotels, where the tourists will find every 
comfort provided for rest and refreshment. Its two well equipped gar- 
ages provide ample accommodatir ns for storage and repair of automo- 
biles. To those who prefer to spend their Sabbaths as a day of rest, our churches extend a cordial welcome. 

Wauneta's altitude, some 2,700 feet above sea level, piuvides a happy medium between Missouri River 
points and mUe high Denver. The citizens of wauneta have taken an active part in the building of the 
Omaha-Denver Good Roads Route, made maniiest by their energetic measures in improving the highway, 
providing accurate markings for the route and aiding in many ways to make the tourist's journay a 
safe and comfortable one. 




n'auneta Falls 



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IMPERIAL, NEBRASKA 




First National Bank 



Imperial, the County Seat of Chase County, Nebraska, is situated near the 
center of the county, and enjoys the distinction of haviner held the first public 
meeting in this state, advocating a cross-state "Good Road Highway," which 
culminated in the State organization of the Omaha-Denver Trans-Continent- 
al Highway, and now a potent part of the great Oeean-to-Ocean Highway. 

Feeling a just pride in having been the originators of this movement, and 
of the fact that the citizens of Imperial, as well as of the entire county are 
each a boomer for "Good Roads," they are ever ready to give the traveler over 
this route all the information pertaining to routes, county, towns, hotels, res- 
taurants, garages or other desired information. 

The population of Imperial is nbout 500, mostly Americans, with a goodly 
number of Germans, Irish and Swedes. The town has three churches, excel- 
lent high nchool, a fine fireproof Court House, the best in southwestern Nebras- 
ka; live merchants comprising every line of business, with full and ample 

stocks of goods; two strong banks, auto repair shops 

and garage with all necessary repairs and equipments to accommodate the trav- 
eling rublic, and is surrounded by a fertile, prosperous farming and stock rais- 
ing community. 

The topography of the county is level and the soil is a 
black sandy loam, none richer in the cereal producing qualities; 
all kinds of cereals, alfalfa, tame and wild grasses, vegetables 
Jsi\ and fruits raised profitably that can be raised in the 41st lati- 

tude. 

The climate is mild and delightful, the altitude being 3,300 
feet; the nights are cool and refreshing. The annual precipita- 
tion is about 23 inches, eighty per cent of which falls during 
the months from April to October, a never failing supply of 
most splendid sheet water found at from 30 to 100 feet. 

This is not a desert, nor a drouth stricken country, as many 
in the east believe, but on the contrary, is a most fertile coun- 
try, watered with never-failing living streams of water, it be- 
ing the best watered county in southwest Nebraska. 

The people are not coi/iposed of the wild cow-boy and typi- 




Cfaase Coiintj Court Bouse 



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cal frontiersman, but as educated, prosperous, intelligent, courteous a class as will be found in any of our 
eastern states, always ready to welcome and entertain the traveling public who may sojourn in our_ midst. 

All the better class of our town and farm buildings are erected by those who have resided in this county 
for the past ten to twenty years, showing that they have unlimited faith in the country, and its future, and 
many of these improvements would be a credit to any country. 

This county holds out to those seeking investmints in lands, ranches or business flattering opportunities, 
and we ask all "seeking such investments to stop off in your itineracy through this country, and we will convince 
you by actual demonstration. IMPERIAL COMMERCIAL CLUB. 



HOLYOKE, COLORADO 



County Seat of Phillips County, Colorado, located in the Frenchman Valley, thirteen miles from Ne- 
braska line. Has five churches, good graded schtol, County High School and Municipally owned Electric 
Light and Water Plants 



Holyoke is located in a rich 
bushels of wheat per acre has beer 
portion. Located in the center of 
opening on the C, B. & Q. Rail- 
Situated at an altitude of 3,800 
ozonized atmosphere, the purest of 
shine, which are now conceded by 
potent factors in subduing lung 

Phillips County boasts of the 
Omaha and Denver. The only 
engine and desire to go fast, no 
ing County. One day's run from 
Omaha. Just the place to stop over night. 



.laiuiary SO, l.'ljl 



agricultural district, where 47 
produced and other crops in pro- 
wheat belt, and afl:'ords the best 
road for a flouring mill, 
feet, Holyoke has a light, dry, 
water and an abundance of sun- 
eminent physicians to be the most 
and bronchial troubles, 
best natural Auto Road between 
sneed limit is the power of your 
change of gear necessary in cross- 
Denver, and two days run from 



Land Prices.— Unimproved land at from $10.00 to $25.00 per acre, and improved from $25.00 to $50.00. 
For further information call or write the Holyoke Commercial Club. 

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HAXTUN, COLORADO 

The land in the Haxtun Country is level prairis; soil, generally, is rich 
sandy loam of excellent fertility and affords a great diversity of crops — corn, 
wheat, barley, oats, rye, spelts, flax, cane, inillet^ alfalfa, potatoes and vege- 
tables are grown profitably. P|^ W-1 

Average rainfall past ten years 19.52 inches. An abundance of pure soft 
water is obtained at a depth of 150 to 175 feet. 

Stock and Poultry raising is very profitable. 

Improved farms are valued at from $25.00 to $40.00 per acre, while un- 
improved land may be had at from $10.00 to $25.00 per acre. 

The Haxtun Country is conceded the best dry farming section in Colorado 
and has carried away the best prizes at State and National Exhibitions (at 
Pueblo State Fair for 1911 we took 82 prizes); notwithstanding this , we 
have an organized irrigation district, (with Storage Reservoir six miles from 
Haxtun) embracing 110,000 acres of PTiillips County land, from which we ex- 
Breaking Soa pect great increase in values. 



Com Bins 




STERLING 



The queen city of the South Platte Valley, situated 130 miles northeast of the Capital of 
the great state of Colorado. Within the last seven years the Sterling agricultural district 
has transfoiTned itself from what was the foremost live stock country in the State to the 
foremost farming district, the large ranches foi-merly operated in the cattle and other live 
stock industry are being cut into smaller farms and are rapidly being settled with a class who 
are altogether an agricultural people. 

Logan County, of which Sterling is the County Seat, is without doubt the 
coming banner County of the State for the growing of crops under irrigation 
with 200,000 acres or more land covered by completed irrigation systems and 
many more acres under projects now developing. Logan County now has a 
larger acreage of sugar beets than any section along the South Platte Valley, 
raising annually more than 10,000 acres which supplies the large sugar factory 
located at Sterling, as well as furnishing a large portion of the sugar beets 
necessary to run the factories located at other po'nts in the South Platte Sugar Beet Factory 

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Valley. The great stacks of alfalfa that may be seeii en the ground any season after the harvest is done 
make the Valley look like the encampment grounds of some vast army. 

Some of the principal features of interest that a tourist should not fail to see in passing through Logan 
County are, the North Sterling Irrigation District reservoir, which cost $1,500,000.00, located twelve miles 
northwest of Sterling, where water to irrigate 80,000 acres of land is stored during the winter months 
and used during the summer for the irrigation of crops; the Prewit Reservoir three miles south of Merino, 
Colorado, which will store 30,000 feet of water, which will be used almost entirely in the growing of 
sugar beets and alfalfa; the big Sugar Factory at Sterling, Colorado, owned by the Great Western Sugar 
Company, which pays annually to the beet growers about $750,000.00; the Alfalfa Meal Mill, operated and 

owned by the Great Western Sugar Company. 

Sterling has a fine Industrial School, the second of its kind in the 
United States, where the various trades are taught, including an agricultural 
course; in addition to this fine School, costing $100,000.00, Sterling has splen- 
did common schools. The cuts of the Sugar Factory and Industrial School 
show only two of many of our good buildings. We have a Court House 
costing $100,000.00; many good Churches, etc. To the tourist who may be com- 
bining pleasure with the business of looking for a new location we extend 
the most hearty invitation to look into the merits of our City and County. 
Sterling is a beautiful little city of 4,000 people with a great future, well 
located and on a division point of the Union Pacific and Burlington Railroads. 
The citizens of Sterling and Logan County cheerfully extend the glad hand to all tourists. Make your 
wants known and give us an opportunity to be of service to you. 




High School 




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BRUSH 
The Metropolis of Eastern^Colorado 

Brush received its name from Ex-Lieutenant Governor of Colorado, Hon. J. L. Brush, who was at one 
time a big stockman in this country and who still holds large land interests here. 
What You May Expect To Find at Brush and Vicinity. 

The best farming country in the State of Colorado. Has been under irrigation 20 years and has never 
had a crop failure or shortage of water. 

Vegetables of all kinds grow abundantly and are money getters. Alfalfa, Sugar Beets, Potatoes and 
Grain are the principal crops. Broom corn yields abundantly — a good opening for a broom factory. 

Splendid opportunities in the way of land investments. Ask the farmers along the road what are the 
results of their labors. 

Brush is on the main line of the Burlington and is also a terminal point of the Burlington and Montana 
Railroad. Has fourteen mail tiains daily; Adams Express Office. 

Brush is a city of homes, has every modem convenience, water works (pure 
water, air pressure system), electric lights, sewer system, a live commercial club, 
fine High School, Sugar Factory (capacity 1,000 tons daily), a large Mofalfa Mill 
for grinding alfalfa in combination with Molasses for feeding stock. 

Brash is only two hours' ride from Denver, making it an ideal loca- 
tion for manufacturing enterprises. A good opening for a milk and , 
vegetable cannery. Has good market facilities both east and west. 

All lines of retail business represented, but room for more. 

WATCH US GROW. 

For general information call on or write, 

THE BRUSH COMMERCIAL CLUB, 

BRUSH, COLO. g^^, B,,, j,,^^ 




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FORT MORGAN 

Ft. Morgan is known as the "City of Shade and Light." This town is built on the site of old Ft. Ward- 
well, which was an outpost on the South Platte river in the early sixties. Its name was changed in 1866 to 
its present designation and in 1868 the military post here was abandoned, and in place of the little sod 
fort there now stands a city whose beauty and prosperity are known throughout the state. 

The town has four thousand people and most of them own their own homes. The streets are well light- 
ed, and the schools are the best. There are many beautiful churches, and the shops are finer than are 
usually found in a place of this size. Real estate men believe that the opportunities for investors in this 
vicinity are as good, both for city and farm land, as anywhere in the west. Ft. Morgan is the county 
seat of Morgan County, which is the center of the largest irrigated section in Colorado. Morgan County 
produces sugar beets, alfalfa, potatoes, small grains of all kinds and a variety of other crops. Intensive 
farming is the rule. Dairjang, stock raising and feeding yield profitable returns. 

For further information rhe public should wi'ite the Chamber of Commerce, Ft. Morgan, Colorado. 






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INTERESTING CITIES 

ON THE 

OVERLAND TRAIL 

Connecting the OMAHA-DENVER TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUTE at Lincoln with the 
WAUBONSIE TRAIL for Keokuk and Indianapolis, at Nebraska City 



NEBRASKA CITY, NEBRASKA 



Nebraska City is interesting to the tourist as the historical jooint in Nebraska. It is attractive as the 
scenic location on the Missouri River and as a most satisfactory control point. Home-like hotels, well equip- 
ped garages, modern stores with accommodating clerks are conditions that invite the tourist to select the 
Waubonsie Trail for his route. 

Nebraska City is a division point on the Burlington and the main line north i:nd south of the Missouri 
Pacific Railway. It has large manufactories, grain distributing and jobbing interests. It is the county 
seat of Otoe County. It has the state school for the blind, fine churches and residences, a handsome high 
school and ward schools. The B. P. O. E. and Eagles have beautiful homes. 

Nebraska City is noted for its wealth of trees and driveways. Arbor Lodge is the home of J. Sterling 
Morton, father of Arbor Day, and adjoins the city. It is an arboretum of national interest. In Morton Park 
is found the bronze and granite memorial, erected by the Arbor' Day Memorial Association to the memory 
of J. Sterling Morton. This is the largest and most imposing memorial west of Chicago. 

Nebraska City is the central crossing point and is only forty-five miles to Omaha. Its roads are good 
and lead south to Atchison, Leavenworth, St. Joseph and Kansas City. 

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SYRACUSE 

Located in the center of Otoe County, on the B. & M. Railroad, about midway between Lincoln and the 
Missouri River. The population is made up of a thrifty and staunch class of well-to-do citizens, who are 
progressive and public spirited. 

The town has an accredited High School, six Churches, Public Library, an excellent Water Plant, fire 
protection and a municipal gas plant, being almost free from debt. 

Industrially the town depends almost entirely upon its agricultural resources. Of late years the farm- 
ers have added excellent homes to their improvements, where they live in absolute comfort. Many thou- 
sands of dollars have been spent in improvements on barns, sheds, silos, feed yards and fences. More in- 
tensive tillage is practiced with the result that the soil is being replenished and made new. Corn is the 
staple crop, but recently the acreage of wheat has nearly doubled. During the summer of 1911 nearly $100,- 
000 worth of wheat was marketed at the two elevators in Syracuse. 

Syracuse was established in 1871. Prior to that time pioneers from New York State had settled in the 
new country and out of these settlements grew three towns bearing names of New York cities. In the 
early '50's a few straggling settlers who had abandoned the stampede for California gold "squatted" along 
the Little Nemaha River, and at Nursery Hill, a mile west of the present site of Syracuse, was established 
a "post" on the road between Nebraska City and Lincoln. Nursery Hill was the "half way house" between 
the two cities, and at this point was built "the old stone mill," the earliest permanent land mark in Central 
Otoe. Since that time the history of the town has been one of continuous and steady growth. 



PALMYRA 

Palmyra, Nebraska, is a beautiful village of about 400 people, situated on the Little Nemaha River be- 
tween Lincoln and Nebraska City. The main part of town lies on the southeast slope of a long hill rising 
from the Nemaha and extending north and west for about one-half mile. On the summit of this hill is situ- 
ated the city park, which is one of the most beautiful in the country. 

All lines of retail business are well represented and hotel accommodations are excellent. All kinds of 
grains are ri.ised successfully. Hay is one of the chief crops, sometimes making enormous yields. Fruits 
are raised in abundance. The apple crop usually is very large, the surplus being shipped out in carloads. 
The people are energetic and prosperous and always extend to the tourist their generous hospitality. 

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The Oregon Trail 

By Albert Watkins 
historian nebraska state historical society 



The Oregon trail was a cut-off of the route to the 
Columbia river followed by the famous Lewis & Clark 
expedition of 1803. The explorers clung to the Mis- 
souri river because it was a sure guide to the Rocky 
mountain divide; because "they preferred travel by 
water; and, besides, there were traditions that the head-waters led to or through 
a pass in the mountains. Furthermore, exploration of the river to its source 
was an important object of the expedition in the mind of President Jefferson, 
who originated it. The subsequently developed cross-country route was safer 
and much more expeditious, reducing the distance about 1,800 miles. 

In the spring of 1809 Manuel Lisa, Andrew Henry and Pierre Menard, all 
great leaders, headed an expedition of one hundred and fifty trappers from St. 
Louis — the base and outfitting point of early traffic on the Missouri river — to 
the mouths of the Yellowstone and Bighorn. The hostile Blackfeet Indians 
scattered them; but the intrepid Henry refused to be driven back and instead 
crossed the Rocky mountains. On the north, or Henry's fork of the Snake river, 
he established the trading post called Henry's Fort. His knowledge of the 
lower trans-montane region and of the Snake river, the great southern tribu- 
tary of the Columbia, no doubt gave a clue to the Astorian Expedition which 
two years later traveled in the main what subsequently became the regular 
Oregon trail — from the western base of the Rocky mountaias to its northwestern 
terminus. 

The Astorian Expedition was sent out from St. Louis in the sprmg of 1811 
by John Jacob Astor, the founder of the great American Fur Company, with a 
two-fold object — ^to establish his company on the Oregon or Columbia river and, 



NOTE: The Cegon Trail crosses the Omaha-Denver Trans-Continental Route 6 miles 

west of Juniata, atout ISB feet south of east anl south turn. 

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incidentally, to gain that then unattBched country for the United States. The Astorians, mindful of the ex- 
perience of Lisa's party with the Blackfeet, struck across the countiy from the Arikari Indian village, situ- 
ated near the northern line of South Dakota, about five miles above the point where the Chicago, Milwau- 
kee & St. Paul railroad has recently bridged the Missouri river. They skirted the Black Hills on the north, 
crossed the upper reaches of the Powder and Bignom rivers and the Rocky mountains in the neignborhoou 
of Jackson's Hole. A part of the Astorians on their leturn trip in the fall of 1S12 and the spring of 
1S13 followed the entire length of the Oregon trail as far east as the mouth of Ash Hollow — which opens 
into the North Platte valley in Deuel county, Nebraska — but, instead of taking a diagonal course to the Mis- 
souri river, they followed the Platte to its mouth, going thence by boat on the Missouri to St. Louis. 

In the meantime trapping and trading on Green river and about the sources of the Platte called for a di- 
rect route to St. Louis, and so, of course, it was torthcoming. In 1824 William H. Ashley led a party of 
three hundred to the Green river fur fields; but he followed the Missouri river to old Council Bluffs and then. 



cutting across to the Platte, 
the mountains. In 1830 Jede- 
son and William L. Sublette, 
ers, took a train of ten wagons 
river route and probably by the 
wagons ever taken to the Rocky 
ka. In 1832 Nathaniel J. Wy- 
the °!itire length of the trail — 
His party joined that of Wil- 
prising 80 men and 300 horses. 
Pierre's Hole. Ci;ptain Bonne- 
train of twenty wagons just 




iizu.4 ME;.::i:i; 

Whose Life Is Devoted To tlio Oregon Trail 



kept along the south fork to 
diah S. Smith, David E. Jack- 
three great trappers and trad- 
frora St. Louis by the Platte 
Nebraska cut-oJf — the first 
mountains and through Nebras- 
eth led the first e> pedition over 
from Independence to Oregon. 
Ham L. Sublette, together com- 
Sublstte went only as far as 
ville, trader and explorer, took a 



ahead of Wyeth. 

In the early part of the decade of 1830-40 missionaries to the noithwest Indians, among whom Dr. Marcus 
Whitman was conspicuous, attracted or recalled public attention to the Oregon country, and by 1840 op- 
posing American and British claims to it had developed into rivalry. Accordingly, in che spring of 1842, Dr. 
Elijah White, who had already been iii Oregon as a missionary, organized a party of 120 people to go there 
as colonists, and our federal government encouraged the enterprise by appointing its leader "sub-agent of 
Indian affairs of the territory west of the Rocky mountains.'" The expedition tr.aveled what now began to 
be recognized as the regular Oregon trail — following the valleys of the Little Blue and Platte rivers. Gen- 
eral Fi'emont, on his first expedition to the mountains, followed not far behind Dr. White's party. The 
next year another colony of a thousand people passed over the trail, this one taking wagons through to 
the Columbia, while the first party left its wagons at Wyeth's trading- post, called Port Hall. 

Soon after this time the federal government saw the necessity of establishing military posts for the 
protection of the increasing traffic over the trail; and so Fort Kearny was established in 1848 and Fort 

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Laramie and Fort Hall the next year. There had been light travel to California previous to the discovery 
of gold there in 1849; and for some years after that time the California traffic greatly exceeded that to Ore- 
gon. The roads separated just beyond the South Pass of the Rocky mountains. There had been light 
travel, also, before 1849, on an upper route, crossing the Missouri mainly from Trader's Point to Bellevue; 
but this did not become considerable until the Mormon exodus to Salt Lake in the spring of 1847. From 
1849, the upper route was as important as the lower or old Oregon line from Independence; but by that time 
the 'California traffic predominated and bath roads were commonly called "California i-oad." The lower road 
was familiarly known as' the Oregon trail before the Omaha and Council Bluffs route became important. 

After the discovery of the Pike's Peak gold lields and the Mormon settlements in Utah had grown to 
importance, the trail became a great mail, freight and passenger line to Denver, Salt Lake City and western 
military posts. Through traffic fell off largely when the Union Pacific railroad reached Ft. ' Kearny and 
North Platte in the fall of 1866, and it almost ceased on the completion of the Pacific road to the coast in 
1869. Railroads were gradually built along the entire trail. It entered what is now Nebraska near the 
boundary line of Gage ahd Jefferson counties, followed the Little Blue Valley to a point near where Leroy 
is now situated in Adams county, thence across to the. Platte river, striking it about 25 miles easr of Ft. 
Kearny, thence up the Platte valley, crossing the river at a point near where Big- Spring is situated; thence 
northwesterly across to and down the canon of Ash Hollow to the North Platte river, following that stream to 
the Rocky mountains; and crossing them by the South Pass; from the western side of the mountains 
northwesterly to the Columbia liver. 

The Oregon trail was the most famous and important wagon road on the North American continent. 
The Nebraska legislature at zhe session of 1911 designated a commission to erect markers along the trail 
within the state and appropriated two thousand dollars therefor. The commission is now engaged in the 
performance of its duties. 






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The Use of the King Road Drag 

By George R. Chatburn 

[head professor of applied mechanics, the university of NEBRASKA 




of 



The simplest and best method of maintaining an earth road yet devised is that of dragging. For years 
race tracks have been dragged or floated for the purpose of keeping the surface smooth and reducing trac- 
tive resistance. Why the method was r.ot extended tailier to the ordinary wagon roads is one of the myster- 
ies of our civilization. Within recent years, however, Mr. D. Ward King, of Missouri, developed a form of 
float or drag which has proven most efficacious for its purpose. 

Mr. King originally made his drag of a split-log. 
planks and of steel. Each has its points of advantage. 
Dragging, if properly done, not only shapes and 
amount of earth toward the center at each drag- 
it also is a puddling and smearing process, and 
these last two elements must enter, 
in a sieve and water turned upon it, on 
soil the water soon soaks in and much 
of the sieve. But if the water and soil be 
then pressed into a cup shape in the sieve 
additional water be put into the mud cup 
ration the sieve thus smeared inside with 
able number of days. In the process of pud- 
become pressed closely together and the 
or gummy colloidal mass is formed which 
such water as is needed to form this colloidal 
reluctantly only upon the application of pres- 

The water-hole or storage reservoir of the 
some of which are still lo be seen along the line 



But now drags are constructed also 
and all do excellent work, 
crowns the road by carrying a small 
ging, smoothing and honing the same, but 
if the highest success is to be obtained 
If soil taken from the field he placed 
account of the granular condition of the . 
passes clear through and out the meshes 
stirred and mixed to form sticky mud and 
it will be found to hold water, that is, if 
and covered by a glass plate to prevent evapo- 
"puddle" will retain the water for a consider- 
dling the air has been worked out, the particles 
voids between them filled with water; a sticky 
is impervious to the passage of more water, and 
state is tenaciously held and will be given up 
sure or through evaporation, 
stockman; the buffalo-wallow of the plains region, 
of the Omaha-Denver Trans-Continental Route in 
western Nebraska and Eastern Colorado; the oi'dinary mud-puddle of the hog-yard or the roadway, all hold 
water besause lined with puddle — colloidal soil made dense and impervious by kneading. Puddle, in the 
presence of an excess of water, because each solid rounded particle is thoroughly lubricated by a film of 
water surrounding it, becomes soft and moves freely, so that when pressure, as of a foot or a wagon wheel, is 
applied the mud squashes out sideways and it is incapable of sustaining any great load. On the other hand, 
if the contained water is of the right amount, such soil will pack under pressure or by tamping until 

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if Sjpreafl upon a firm foundation, it is capable of sustaining a considerable load wihout either squashing 
or grinding- into dust. A well crowned road covered with puddle in its ideal condition of dampness has a 
water tight roof and all it needs in addition is thorough side and under drainage to give it a dry cellar; and 
a road, like a house, if it has a tight roof and a dry cellar, may be made fit for the use of a king. 

Dragging a road immediately after a rain, while the ground is still wet, but not too sticky, puddles 
the soil and smears it over the top; presses out the surolus water and leaves the surface smooth and hard 
for service; and when the next rain comes the water rapidly runs off before it has had time to soak deeply in. 
Now another dragging puddles and smears some more; the drag having been set to bring fresh earth from 
the side toward the center, the thickness of the roof gradually increases with each dragging until in time 
there are two or even three inches of compact hard crust. The wheel tracks being obliterated, the entire sur- 
face of the dragged highway recpives the uniform bopting and packing of hoofs and wheels and the forma- 
tion of ruts, the worst possible thing that can happen to any road surface, is avoided. 

The successful use of the drag requires first a lisht drag; one so light, no matter what material it be 
made of. that one man can easilv load it into a wagon, but still stiff and rigid enough not to materially 
bend under use on the road. The driver should ride the drag, not seated with an umbrella_ over him, but 
standing so that by changing his position he can make it dig deeper or not so deep as he wishes- To make 
it dig deeper throw the entire weight on one foot n^T the cutting or forward corner of the drag at A 
(Fig. 1); if less deep throw the weight back unon the foot B or sten to C. If the front rail becomes clog- 
p-ed with weeds, or it is desired to dro" a quantity nf °ai-th to fill a hole, the driver should step quickly to 
the Doint D. The earth due- un bv the cutting blade should gradually work along and sift under the for- 
ward rail. The rear rail may be set slightly leaning so that it crushes and plasters down the earth which 
has sifted under th^ forward rail, leaving- it sr>^ooth as butter is left os a piece of bread by the knife, or 
mortar by the trowel of the workman. Lengthening the hitch -wrill also cause the drag to move more earth. 

It is impossible to state the exact lens-th of hitch, the best angle to draw the drag, or the position 
of the driver, for these will all vary with the character and condition of the soil, the length of time the 
road has been dragged, ana the condition of the roadbed at the time of dragging. The driver, if a man 
of intelligence, can bv trial soon ascertain these things for himself. But it may be said, the total amount 
of fresh earth brought toward the center should usually all be spread and crushed bv the drag. No ridge 
or windrow of earth should ever be left in the '-idVup of the road. Care in digging up only iust as much 
as will uniformlv sift out 'inder the rail will avoid this, but if for anv cause it be thoueht -wise to brina- 
more to the center it can bo smoothed bv using the -"'"o- st'-aight instead of diagonally the last trip over. _If 
the center gets too high, that is more than ten or twelve inches higher than the side, drag in the opposite 
direction occasionally. 

The Illinois Highway Commission di.strjbuted to its road overseers the folio-wing rules for dragging, 
which are both concise and explicit: _ • 

47 



"Make a light drag, which is hauled over the voad at an an.a:le so that a small amount of earth is 
pushed to the center of the road. 

"Drive the team at i walk. _^ 

"Ride on the drag; do not walk. 

"Begin on one side of the road, returning on the opposite. 

"Drag the road as soon after a rain as possible, but not when the mud is in such condition as to stick to 
the drag. 

"Do not drag a di-y road. 

"Drag whenever possible at all seasons of the year. If the road is dragged immediately before a cold 
spell it will freeze in a smooth condition. 

"The width of traveled way to be maintained hv the drag should be from eighteen to twenty feet: first 
drag a little more than the width of a_ single wheel track, then gradually increase until the desired width is 
obtained. ' 

"Always drag a little earth toward the center of the road until it is raised from ten to twelve inches 
above the edges of the traveled way. 

"If the drag cuts in too deep shorten the hitch. 

"The amount of earth that the drag will carry slong can be very considerably controlled by the driver, 
according as he stands near the cutting end or away from it. 

"When the roads ire first dragged after a iv,„rldv snell the wagons should drive to one side, if pos- 
sible, until the roadway has a chance to freeze or partially dry out. 

"The best results from dragging are obtained onlv by repeated application. 

"Remember that constant attention is necessary to maintain an earth road in its best condition." 

There is an old adage that "eternal vigilance is thp nrice of success." The magnificent roads . of Eu- 
rope are kept in condition by the patrol system. A patrolman goes over his section on foot every day. With 
a stiff broom he sweeps oat any tendeicy to form a h°aten path, fills ruts, practically, before they are formed 
by never allowing a low place tu remain more than a day or two. Not only does the patrol keep nis road in 
condition because he is paid to do so, but through ''omnetition and rivalry each tries to outdo his neighbor 
and the results are those grand thoroughfares which are a delight to all persons who travel upon them and an 
economic saving to the people at large. The provp>-h. "A stitch in time saves nine," applies as well to the 
road as to the garment, and dragging the road after every rain is perhaps the easiest, cheapest and best 
way of taking that stitch. 



48 



GENERAL MAP 
OMAHA-DENVER TRANS-CONTINENTAL ROUTE 



AND OVERLAND TRAIL 




!#"#" w'' /adams I J^ 

^ * ■' u^ 

I . 'AR aPAH 0_E j^ 



LEGE N D 



HOUSE 

SCHOOl 

CHURCH--. - 
W1NDM1LL- 
rROLLEY--- 
RAILROAD 



WOODEN BRID6L ■■ 

STEEL BRIDGE 8|-B 

CONCRETE BRIDGE ■« 

CULVERT ■■ 

CEMETERY ^^. 

TREE 



1-i 



ij^ 

M A 1 L B X(FisuresdenijleNijmttriif BiBes)i2 SIGN IE 



49 





1 NDEX 




Aurora 


63 


Havelock 


160 


Arapahoe 


Ill 


Haxtun 


79 


Ashland 


165 


Heartwell 

Holbrook 


127 

110 


Atwood 


71 


HOLDREGE 


119 


Atlanta 


117 


Hillrose 


67 


Axtell 


123 


Holyoke 


83 


Hartley 


107 


Imperial 


90 


Bennett 


56 


Indianola 


105 


Beverly 


97 


Juniata 


129 


Brush 


66 


Lamar 


87 


Cambridge 


109 


LINCOLN 


157 


Comanche 


58 


McCOOK 


100 


Culbertson 

DENVER 


98 




166 

70 


51 


Merino 


Dunbar 


183 


Milford 


153 


Eagle 


179 


Millard 


169 


Edison 


112 


MINDEN 


124 


Emerald 


155 


NEBRASKA CITY 


185. 


Exeter 


147 


OMAHA 


173 


Fairmont 


143 


Oxford 


114 


Friend 


149 


Palmyra 


180 


Fleming 


77 


Palisade 


. 96 


FT. MORGAN 


63 


Sable 


53 


Funk 


122 


STERLING 


72 


Grafton 


140 


SUTTON 


139 


Greenwood 


162 


Syracuse 


182 


Gretna 


167 


Unadilla 


181 


Hamlet 

Harvard ' 

HASTINGS 


94 

136 

133 


Watkins 


64 


Wauneta 


93 


Waverly 


161 



50 



GOING EAST — Start corner Broadway and Colfax Ave; go due east on Colfax Ave. 




Pop 
" B 




DEIVVEE, COLO. 

21S,381. Alt. 5.2S0 ft. 

to Aurora. B32.3 E. to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

HOTELS— The Albany, Eur. .$1.50 
up, 17th and Stout. The Brown 
Palace, Eur., 17th and Tremont. 

G.4RAGES — Michaells-Mlddlekanff 
Auto Co.. 1709-1,3 Tremont. 
Penver Auto Goods Co., inOO 
Broadway. Central Motor Co., 
1333 Eronrlway. Jlnnn-AKlrloh 

Carriapre Co.. .TO W. Cnlfax Ave. 
Colorado Auto Co., 12"o Broadway. 



NOTE — One must 
that it is 94.6 



bear in mind' 
miles to Ft. 



Morgan and should mal?e a 

point to see that he is supplied 

with a sufficient amount of 

gasoline and oil. 



Xi'orner Broadway and Colfax Ave. 



51 



Michaelis" Middlekauf f 
——z^ Auto Co. ^^zz 



1709-1 1-13 Tremont Street 

Opp. Brown Palace Hotel. Largest Storage, 
Rental, Repairs and Supply Garage in city. 

Ollicial A. A. A. Garage. Always open. 

Phone Main 4980 



WHEN IN DENVER STOP 

AT THE 

CENTRAL MOTOR CO. 

1333 BROADWAY 

One Block from Capitol 



PHONE MAIN 289 



STORAGE and 
REPAIRING 



OPEN ALL 
NIGHT 



Cars called for and delivered 



CADILLAC 

GARAGf AND SERVICE STATION 



1260 BROADWAY 
DENVER, COLO. 



Special Attention to 
Cadillac Transients 



SPRINGS 



WHEELS 



AXLES 



Let us repair or rebuild that broken spring, 
wheel or axle. We do all kinds of auto 
and carriage work and guarantee same 

THE MAIN-ALDRICII CARRIAGE COMPANY 

50 WEST COLFAX AVE. 

(Opposite Public Library) 

Phone Main 720 Denver, Colo. 

PAINTING TOPS TRIMMING 



WHEN YOU 
CROSS IOWA 

Take the 

Iowa Official 

Trans-Continental 

Route 

Omaha to Clinton 
Guides at Stationers 



52 



SABLff 




AURORA, COLO. 

(Suburb to Denver.) 
7 \V. to Denver, 2.9 N. to Sable. 

fi25..3 E. to Omaha. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 



SABLE, COLO. 

(Suburb to Denver.) 
2.n S. to Aurora, 12.1 E. to Watkius. 
n.n W. to Denver, C22.4 E. to Oma- 
ha. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 



NOTE — Tlip Inwer black line at fork is the Official 
Onialia-Den\'er Trans-Continei-tal Route, but 
not open inv travel (Oct., 1911). It is ex- 
pected to bo completed during the summer 
of 1912. 



53 



iJOTEJ— The lower black line at ffk 'a 
the Official Omaha-Denver Trans-Conti- 
nental Route, but not open for travel 
(October. 1911). It Is expected to be 
completed during the summer of 1912- 



,0. ,5^^^*^^^^' "^i^t^OOO ft. 
'fl.'^tSrnl^er.^ll^S^-ro",^"- 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

HOTBI-S-E. D. Traut Hotel, fet- 

er Traut Hotel, Am.. H- 
GAS AND on-S-Peter Traut. 




64 




55 



BENNETT, COLO. 

Pop. 50. Alt. 5,532 ft. 

ft.r; W. to Watkins. 19.9 N. B. to 

Comanche, 31.3 W. to Denver, 

noi.O E. to Omaha. 
Distance mea.sured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 
HOTELS— Bennett Hotel, Am.. $1 
GAS AND OILS— General Store 




56 




A v.-indJng but good prairie road, 




57 




581.1 E. to Omaba. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. ,„ , „ _ . 

19 9 S. W. to Bennett, 43.4 N. B. to 

Ft. Morgan, 51.2 S. W. to Denver, 
GBOCEBIES, I,CNCHES, GAS AND 

OII<S — T. M. Thaden. 

NOTE — Comanche 1b a postoffloe. 



68 



rOP Shed 




69 





60 







ATTENTION — Tourists for Denver should be care 
ful not to continue west with wires on 
road on left haad of sheet. 



61 




62 




One should bear in mind that 
It Is 94.6 miles to Denver, 
and should make a point to 
see that one is supplied 
with a sufficient amount of 
gasoline and olh 



FORT MORGAN, COLO. 

Pop. 3,000. 
43.4 S. W. to Comanche, 9.5 E. to 
Brush, 94.6 S. M . to Denver, 537.7 

E. to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

HOTELS— Curry Hotel, Am., $2.50 
up. Cor. Main and Kiowa Sts. 
Bijou Hotel, Am., $2.50 up. Cor. 
Kiowa and Ensign Sts. European 
Hotel, Eur., .$.50 up. Main St., Bet. 
Railroad and Kiowa. Metropolitan 
Rooms, Eur. $.50 up. Main St., 
Bet. Kiowa and Beaver Ave. Man- 
hattan Hotel, Eur., $.50 up., Cor, 
Main and Railroad. 

GARAGES— Paxton's Auto Inn, 
Bet. C. B, & Q. R. R. and Rail- 
road Ave, Allred Auto Livery, 
Co,, Bet. 9th and 10th Ave, H, 
W. Salmon Aato Co,, Ensign ana 
Railroad Ave. 



See next page for leading Hotel and Garage. 



63 



Storage 
Repairing 



Supplies 
Presto Exchange 



H. W. SALMON AUTO CO. 

OFFICIAL GARAGE 

FREE AIR 




Day and Night 
Service 



FORT MORGAN, 
COLO. 



208-210 Ensign Street 



^ Huebinger ' s 
Auto Guides on 
sale at all Sta- 
tioners and 
Dealers. 



The Curry 



FORT MORGAN, COLO 



New Modern Hotel 



American Plan $2 per day 
and up. 

Large parties of Tourists 

please phone or wire 

in advance. 



If You are in a Hurry to Cross Iowa 

TAKE THE 

I-O-A Short Line 



A Direct Road From Omalia to Davenport 



Huebinger's Guide at Stationers and Dealers 



64 




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RAILWAY 




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BrickHouse 



34 ^ : 







BRUSH, COLO. 



Barn 



i" , 9.5 W. to Ft. Morgan, 12 N. E. 

'%T H^use Hillrose, 104.1 S. W. to Deuv 
Mc-"'"" . 528.2 E. to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Ai 
Meter. 

HOTELS— Southern Hotel, Am. 

GARAGE — W. A. Wallace, storai 

35 «"^- 



jif.^ 



■ir: Ditch 



T 



66 



W. A. Wallace 
GARAGE 



BRUSH. 



COLO 



All kinds of Aula Repairing. 
Day and night service. 



One Block South of Postoffice 
BELL PHONE BLEW 702 




COLO. 

12 S. W. to Brush, 19.5 N. E. to 

Merino, llG.l S. W. to Denve'-, 

516.2 B. to Omaba. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 
HOTEI,S— Hotel Wlieeler, Wind's 

N'ew Hotel. 
STORAGE AND REPAIRS— E. H. 

Wheeler. 



67 




69 



MER 




MEKINO, COLO. 

Pop. 250. 

19.5 S. W. to Hlllrose, 6.1 N. E 

Atwood; 135.6 S. W. to Den- 

406.7 B. to Omalia. 
Distance measured by Warner A. 

Jleter. 
HOTEI.S— Merino Hotel. Am., ? 
REPAIRS— Alonzo Shun. 
G.4S — Keasp^ & Keasey. Sm 

Newton & Co. 



70 




ATWOOD, COLO. 

Pop. 75. 

"1 S. W. to Merino, G,4 N. E. 
to Sterling, 141.7 S. W. to Den- 
ver, 490.6 E. to Omaha. 

Distance measurefl by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

HOTELS— Atwood Hotel, Am., $1. 

GAS AND OILS— General Store. 



SecT/on/tne. 




STERLING, COLO. 

Pop 4,000. Alt. 3,950 ft. 

6.4 S. W. to Atwood. 26 B. to 

Fleming, 148.1 S. W. to Denver, 

484.2 B. to Omaha. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 
HOTEtS— Southern Hotel, Am., $2 

to $2.50, Main St., Bet. 2d and 

3rd Sts. Hague Rooming House, 

2d St. Bet. Poplar and Chestnut. 

Payne's Restaurant, Front and 

Poplar Sts. 
r..\R.4GES— Sterling Garage, Cor. 

2d and Popular Sts., Plumbing, 

Heating & Machine Co. 



72 



THE STERLING GARAGE COMPANY 



STERLING. COLORADO 




In Center of City 

Never Closed 

Every Comfort for the Tourist 

Repair Work of Every Kind Skillfully Done 



OFFICIAL GARAGE FOR THE A. A. A. 

PHONE LOGAN 771 FOR PROMPT SERVICE 



73 



TH[ PLUMBING, HfATING AND MACHINE 
COMPANY GARAGE 

STERLING, COLO. 

201-215 South 2nd. St 

Phone 1051 Sterling 

At your service for repairs, sundries, tires and tour- 
ists' equipment. 


Ihe 

Waubonsie 
Trail 

LINCOLN 
KEOKUK 
INDIANAPOLIS 

The natural Way) lo cross the Stale of Iowa 


Sl'OR AGE 


The Home of the Buick for North-east 
Colorado. 

NOTE: — We have storage space for ten cars, 
one of the best equipped shops in the West, 
good mechanics, handle all popular lubricants. 
Can serve 300 gallons of gasoline. 


The Old Trail of 
Huebingei's the Great Chief 

at Stationers WauboHsie 




74 



ATTENTION — Tourists going east be careful not 
to turn right on clay road just west of 




6 






Stone 
'-'ouse I 



-/-" 



I larfZ'D, 






75 



















3/ 


32 


33 

■1 


34 


35 


-.^ForJ 36 




y 


■ 


4 


Barn 

3 


2 


/ 








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76 




FLEMING, COLO. 

26 W. to Sterling, 13.4 B. to Hax- 
tun, 1Y4.1 W. to Denver, 458.2 E. 
to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

No accommodations. 



Srf"""*"*^**"* 




"9 



CAUTION — Tourists going east should turn east Just one-half mile south 
from lar paper house at turn in Fleming. At time of going to 
press (C'ctober, 1911) this turning point Is without markings. 

77 



Near Fleming: — Summer, 1911 




26 ^ 

RANCH 
C. D tVARR£^ 



, f^uin - ZS 



HAXTUN 
AUTO CO. 



Free air. 

Presto Exchange 

Repairs and Supplies 



HAXTUN, COLO. 



C. D. Warren's ranch, N. E. '4 26, 



78 




HAXTUjV, COLO. 

(HAXTUM, P. O.) 

Pop. 500. Alt. 4,000 fet. 

13.4 W. to Fleming; 21.1 B. to 

Holyoke, 1S7.5 W. to Denver, 444.S 

E. to Omaha. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 
HOTELS— Central Hotel, Am., $2. 

Haxtun Hotel, Am., $1. 
(i.iK.'VGE — Haxtun Auto Co. 



79 



21 



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23 






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Schoo/ 



10 



Sauarp 2 jf,- 



80 



HOLYOK[ AUTO COMPANY 

HOIYOHE, COLO. 




OFFICIAL A.A.A. GARAGE 

Modernly equipped for prompt 
service at short notice. 

A complete line of tires and accessories. 
Repairing skillfully done. 



SEARS HOTEL. 

Under New Management. C. R. SEARS, Proprietor 

HOLVOKE, COLO. 



RATES 



2.00 PER DAY 




Newly Furnished. Electric Lighted. 
Table with the Best of Everything 
in Season. 

Hat meals and lunches at all hours 



OFFICIAL HOTEL FOR A. A. A. 



82. 




For Accommodations information for Holjoke see page 84. 



HOLYOKE 






Buffalo 
Wallows 



J6 



VT 



\\ 



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X 'A .... 



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83 



first National Bank 

Charter No. 9278 

Holyoke, Col. 


MORSE HOTEL 

European Plan American Plan 
$1.00 up $2 per day 

Bakery and Cafe in connection 
Special Attention Given Tourists 


The 
Iowa Publishing Co. 

Des Moines 
Iowa 

Automobile 
Publications 


Capital, S50,000.00 
Surplus, $14,000.00 

OFFICERS 

John neerinbotham. President 
W. E. noRiubotham. V. Pre3. 
Geo. B. Heginbotham. Cashier 
May B. Mowry, Asst. Cashier 
Fred G. Fiedler. Asst. Cashier 


MERT MORSE, Prop., Holyoke, Colo. 


HOLYOKE ACCOMMODATIONS 


HOLYOKE, COLO. ™°^ "P t° imperial, centr.il time 
Pop. 900. Alt. 3,600 ft Is used, and the change to moun- 
21.1 W. to Haxtnn, 17.7 E. to La- tain time is not made until leav- 
Z'o^lt ^- '" '''°'''' "'" ^- '"^ Holyoke. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto HOTEl,S— Morse hotel. Am.. .$1 to $2, 
Meter. Inter Ocean Ave. Holyoke Hotel, 

Time changes on the Q, system at t""' ^If^ ^° «- Inter Ocean Ave. 
McCook from central t.o moun- Sears Hotel Annex, Am., $1 to ?2, 
■ tain time, but on that spur that Inter Ocean Ave. 



84 




85 



A thirteen mile straight-away course. 



Single l^ire 



16 



.10 II 



S'ngk\l^ire on fence pos^ 



IS 



'Und 2 
AW/. . 



M 



12 



Snp/eMlre^ ^chjol 



mil "^"/'^fp'^ ^ 

Squur 

13 \\ 18 




Z-S^f/7 



86 



LAMAE, NEBR, 

Pop. 50. 

17.7 W. to Hblyoke, 21.4 E. to Im- 
perial, 226.3 W. to Denver, 406.0 
E. to Umaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

HOTELS— Lamar Hotel, Am., Sfl. 

GAS— L. M. Hart. 

on-S— H. ,T. Gingrich. 




A. Turning point looking soutll 



87 



A School 




j^ School 



88 




89 




New Brich Holel with raodfrn equipmenl. 
Op^r.ed Dec. 1 9 1 0. Tourists palionaee so. 
Iiclci). kmnaa plan. Rates $2 per day 

A. C. CLAYBURG, Prop. 



IMPEBIAL, NEBB. 

Pop. 402. 

21.4 W. to Lfimar, 19.9 E. to 

Waiineta, 247.7 W. to Denver, 

:B4.G E. to Omaha. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 
HOTELS — McOuire Hotel, Am.. 

Center of BIU. S. F. & M. Bank. 

Colonial Hotel. Am., 2., Corn, of 

BIk. S. F. & M. Bank. Hotel De 

Wauna, Am., .$2. 
GARAGE — Johnson & Potter, Op-^. 

Colonial Hotel. 



90 



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1 


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1 


1 




« t Wind If ill 


School .„ 


1 

^ 7 

1 .... 


8 

■ 


9 

^Kres 


n' 
10 

mres 


'qf/ina 
* Mill 


5; a School 
% 

/4- 




Wmd'^%'^ 

Mill^ -■ 
18 


,.^J1» '^^ Pioneer/^ 

""7"-"-' •"""' jchool 

Orchard Red Born* 


QWind 
* Mi/I 

16 


15 






1 


>^^ 


II 


' ' 



91 



n. I ATH[Y 6. 

ATH[Y~BROS. 



Garage 




Automobiles 

Repairing 

Supplies 

Wauneta Nebraska 



WAUNETA, NEBR. 

Pop. 400. 

19.9 W. to Imperial, 8.1 E. to Ham- 
let, 267.6 W. to Denver, 364.7 B. 
to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

HOTELS— Central Hotel, Am., $1 to 
$2. 

GARAGES— Athey Bros., Woods & 
Evens. 




93 



Pop. 20. 

8.1 W. to Waunetii. 7..3 E. to Talis- 

ade, 275.7 W. to Denver, 356.6 B. to 

Omaba. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

ireter. 
G.\S & REPAIRING — Bufflnsrton 

Blacksmith Shop. 




-^^^^^J' 



94 




t-_ 



Near the old mill Ln Sec. 36. 





oo„ 



SMITH BROTHER! 
GARAGE 



Presto Lite Exchange ! 
Ropaira and Supplies !| 
A Square Deal fori 
Tourists. 



PALISADE, NEBRASK.; 



PALISADE, NEBE. 

Pop. 380. Alt. 3,000 ft. 

7.3 W. to Hamlet, 9.9 E. to Bever- 
ly, 283.0 W. to Denver, J49.3 E. 
to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Anto 
Meter. 

HOTBLS — Commercial Hotel, Ear., 
$2. 

GARAOK — Smith BroB., Storage BOc. 




MJd^S 



96 




BEVERLY, NEBE. 

Pop. 15. Alt. 2,700 ft. 

9.9 W. to Palisade, 9.5 E. to Cul- 

bertson, 202.9 W. to Denver, 

339.4 E. to Omaha. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 
BKFBESHMENTS— C. B. Stephens' 

General Store. 
GAS AITD OIL.S — Blacksmith Shop. 



CULBERTSON, NEBB. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 








U^. 





...l ^ 






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1 1 














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jys 






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p—-^- — ' — "^ 





98 



West of Colbertson. 



: &'" 




arCOOK, NEBB, 

Pop. 4,000. .\It. 2,500 ft. 

13.7 W. to Culbertson, 12.3 B. to 
Indlanola; 316.1 W. to Denver; 

316.2 E. to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

Time changes on the Q. tystem at 
McCook from central to mountain 
time, but on that spur that runs 
np to Imperial, central time In 
used, and the change to mountain 
time Is not made until leaving 
Holyoke. 

HOTEI/8— Monte Criato Hotel, Enr., 
$1., West B. St. Commercial Ho- 
tel, Am., 12., Main Ave. Palmer 
Hotel, Am., $2, West B. St. Na- 



iS^.« 



'o 



Park 



Courl Hdjse !^ 



Intermissii 
Cigaratn t. 



Post 
Cil yHJll 



Iffice ■ 



5«^^ 



tional Hotel, Am., $1.25, Bast B 
GARAGES— D. G. Divine, Storage 
50c, West B. St. C. R. Livingston, 
Storage 50c, West B. St. Chas. 
E. Picklnm, West B. St. 



CRWoo: 



Commp :cial 
■ HoIeI 



DnjJSIorc 



nra 



lko,™Ji»„Liaci' 



Burlington Shops 



'libi'iry 



iKonal 
Hotel 




sr 



sr. 



sr. 



sr 





100 



LIVINGSTON'S GARAGE 

Two blocks west of Main St. Hotel next door. 

Western Nebraska Distributor for Reo 

AUTOMOBILES 

Large stock of Tires, Oils and Supplies. 
We can fill every want of the Tourist. 

C R. LIVINGSTON, Propr. 

McCook, Neb. 



THE PALMER HOTEL 

56 ROOMS 

THE BIG BRICK Two Blocks West of Main Street 

BEST HOTEL IN McCOOK 

Excellent Meals Hot and Cold Baths 

RATES $2.00 PER DAY 

J. H. STEPHENS, Proprietor McCOOK. NEB. 

GARAGE NEXT DOOR 



HUDSON, r~^H 


^Q SUPPLIES 


CHALMERS and flPi 


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CARS l^rf 


B| REPAIRS 



Phone 400. One block west of Main street. 

D. G. DIVINE McCook, Neb. 



Monte Cristo Hotel 

Free Baths for Auto Parties. 

The best Cafe between Omaha and Denver. 

Open all night. 

Rates $1.00 up. Garage in connection. 

J. C. STONE, Mgr. 

McCOOK. - NEBRASKA 



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GASOLIN 
fREE AIR fOR TIRES 



"Look for '^s Sign" 

Chas. E. Picklum 

McCOOK, NEB. 



Tourists* Headquarters 
for 

Drugs, Toilet Articles, 

Cigars, Stationery, 

Ice Cream Soda, 

Kodak and Camera 

Supplies. 

C R. Woodworth 

DRUGGIST 

McCook, - Nebraska 



m INTERMISSION 

W. E. HART, Prop. 
Wholesale and Retail 

Cigars and Tobacco 



Magazines and Newspapers 

320 Main SI. McCOOK. NEB. 



Cross the State of Io\a/a 
blue grass road 



BY WAY 
OF THE 



OMAHA TO BURLINGTON-FT. MADISON 

.\ Model Dirt Road thru the Faniou.s Blue (xrass Belt 

HUEBINGER'S GUIDES for Sale at Stationers and Garages 
THE IO\A/A PUBLISHING CO. ^^^io^J^a"^^^ 



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INDIANOIA, NEBR. 

Pop. 700. Alt. 2,372 ft. 

12.3 W. to McCook, 6.9 B .to Bart- 
ley, 328.4 W. to Denve.-, 303.9 E. 
to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter, 

HOTBI.8— Cosgro Hotel. 

REPAIRS — Wm. Fritsch, A. M. An- 
derson. 

GAS — C. E. Russell. 



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BARTLEY, NEBB, 

Pop. 400. 

6.9 W. to Indlanola, 8.5 E. to Cam- 
bridge, 335.3 W. to Denver, 297.0 
E. to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

HOTELS — Citizens Hotel, Am., $2. 

GARAGES— J. A. Finnegan, storage 
50e. Nelson Hdw. Co. 



CITIZEN'S HOTEL 

C. C. ANDERSON, 
Prop. 

Hartley - - Neb. 

EXCELLENT MEALS 

Hot and cold water. 
Special attention to Tourists, 



BARUEY GARAGE 

Repairs and Gasoline 

J. A. FINNEGAN, Prop. 



Hartley 



Neb. 



NELSON HARDWARE CO. 

Supplies, Repairs, 

Oils and Gasoline 

BARTLEY, NEB. 



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p. B. COLE 

Cambridge Garage 



Repairs, Oils, 
Accessories, 



Best of accommodationa 
for Tourists. 



Located right on the Omaha-Denver Route 
CAMBRIDGE, NEB. 



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CAMBBIBGE, NEBB. 

1,029. Alt. 2,258 ft. Ul I 

W. to Bartlev. 9 E. to Hol- 
ook, 343.8 W. to Denver, 288.5 

to Omaha, 
ance measured by Warner Auto 
!ter. 

PELS— Perry Hotel, Am., $2, 
k. N. of Depot. 

(AGE — P. B. Cole, Storae* 50c, 
Elks. W. of Perry Hotel. 




HOLBROOK, NEBR. 

Pop. 400. Alt. 2,206 ft. 

9 W. to Cambridge, 5.9 B. to Am- 

paboe, 352.S W. to Denver, 

279.5 B. to Omaha. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 
HOTELS — New Palace Hotel, Am.. 

.•?2, Main St. 
G.4RAGE — Butler'a Garage, storage 

50c, Main St. 
KEP-'VIRS — Ea.v Morris. Main St. 

C. C. Kluver, Center Ave. 




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ARAPAHOE, NEBE. 

''op. 1,000. Alt. 2,173 ft. 

5 9 W to Holbro.ok, 8.2 E. to Edi- 
son, 358.7 W. to Denver, 273.6 E. 
to Omaha. ^^ . ^ 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 

HOTEIS — Park Hotel. Am., $2. 

Cottage Hotel, Am., W- ^ , 
GARAGES — A. Benjamin, Scliwert- 

fec;er & Palmer. 
BEP.AIBS — Joe Baxter. 
GAS— Williams Bros., Hartman 

Store. 




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EDISON, NEBR. 

Pop. 400. Alt. 2,116 ft. 

8.2 W. to Arapahoe, 8.8 E. to Ox- 
ford, 366.9 W. to Denver, 265.4 
B. to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 



HOTELS — Republican Valley, Am 



GARAGES— Wm. V. Miller. 



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W.V.MILLER GARAGE 



Livery and Auto Repairing 
Supplies and Oils 



EDISON 



NEBRASKA 



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OXrOKB, NEBB. 

Top. 600. Alt. 2,074 ft. 

S.S W. to Edison : 16.5 N. E. to At- 
lanta ; 375.7 W. to Denver; 256.6 
E. to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

HOTELS— Nome Hotel. Am., .$2; 
Hnrlington, .\ni. $2. 

O-VK.VGE — Prime's Oarage, Storage 
Me. 

KEPAIKS — Art Woast, Henry 
lilahn. 

GAS AND OILS— Creston Drug Co. 

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PRIME'S OARAGE 

SUPPLIES, REPAIRS, OILS 

'AMOUS 
ORD 



Agent 
for the 



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We carry a Full line of Ford Repairs with a competent 
man in charge 

RIGHT ON TH[ ROAD-CLOSE TO HOTELS 

C. S. PRIME. Propr. OXFORD. NEB. 



Road Maps and Guides 

That tell the truth about the roads in the state of Iowa 
are 

Huebinger's Automobile 
Publications 

At Book Stores, Garages, Drug Stores 

The Iowa Publishing Co., Des Moines, la. 

PrBLISHEPvS 



Burlington and Nome Hotels 

OXFORD, NEBRASKA 
OPERATED BY OXFORD HOTEL COMPANY 




Best accommodations in state West of Lincoln. 
Rooms with private or detached bath and hot and 
cold Water. : : : : ■" ■' •' •' ■' ■' 



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ATLANTA, NEBB. 

In 250. Alt. 2,150 ft. 

Is S. W . to Oxford. 10.3 N. B. to 
iHoldrege, 392.2 W to Denver, 
53.1 B. to Omaha. 
Istance measured by Warner Auto 

vieter. 

1JTE1.S — Hopkins Hotel, Am., $2. 
aR.\GES— F. W. Olson, C. S. Me- 

Monlgell. . „ ^ 

lEPAIRS— L. C. Smith, C. A. Hed- 

[und. Hardware. 
(L9 AND OII.S— S. E. Patteson. 

Druggist. 



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HOLDREGE, NEBK. 

Pop. 3,500. Alt. 2,200 St. 

10 3 S. W. to Atlanta, 8.2 E. to 
Funk, 402.5 W. to Denver, 229.8 

E. to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

HOTELS— Hampton Hotel, Am., $2. 
Fifth and East Avenue. Evans' 
Hotel, American, 1.50 and $2.00, 
2nd and West Ave. ;Central Hotel, 
Am. $1.50. 3rd and East Ave. ; 
Try-Us-Cafe, 4th Ave. W. of P. O. 

GARAGES — Western Motor Car 
Co., storage 50e, West Ave., W. of 
Court House, Bur.?eson's Gar- 
age, storage, 50c, 5th St. S. of 
Court House; A. F. Larson, stor- 
atre 50c, Cor. 4th & Grant St. 
GAS AND OlliS— Bacon's Garage 
and Livery Barn, 3rd and East 
Ave. 




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HOLDREGE, NEBR., GARAGE 

Best Fitted to Accommodate Tourists. Room for Twenty Cars. Large 
Steam Vulcanizing Plant. Capable Workmen and Fully Equipped Re- 
pair shop. Full Line of Auto Supplies and Accessories. 



WESTERN MOTOR CAR CO. 



ENGSTROM 



Proprietor 



Prices Always Right 



West of Court House. . West Avenue 



C. R. BURGESON 

Supplies, Repairs 
Oils and Gas 

Special Attention Given to Tourists 

South of Court House - HOLDREGE, NEB. 



TRYUS CAFE 



p. E. LUDLOW. Prop. 

HOLDREGE, NEB. 

J Everything that the market affords prop- 

erly prepared. 



Special Attentiori Given to Automobile 
Transients. 



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Pop. 250. Alt. 2.000 ft. 

S.2 W. to HoWredge, 7.6 E. to Ax- 
tell. 43.0.7 W. to Denver. 221.6 E. 
to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

GAS AND OILS— Hardware store. 



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AXTELL, NEBK. 

Pop. 300 . , 

7fl W to Funk. 10.1 B. to MirdcMi. 

41 S. 3 W. to Denver, 214.0 E to 

OnKilia. 
piKtnnce measured hy Warner Auto 

Aletev. 
llOTEIiS — Murray Hotel, Am., $2. 
GAB.4GB— Leafgren's Garage. 



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MEVBEN, KEBB. 

Pop. 2,100. Alt. 2,178 ft. 

10.1 W. to Aitell, 13.1 B. to Heart- 
well, 428.4 W. to Denver, 203.9 E. 
to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Aato 
Meter. 

ROTELtS — Humphrey Hotel, Am., 
$2, 5th Ave. and Minden. 

GARAGES — Lars Gunderson, stor- 
age 50c, Opp. Court House; 
Brondersley Bros., one blk S. of 
Hotel, storage 50c; Chris Hove 
Garage, storage 50c. 




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Minden Auto Garage 

BRONDERSLEY BROS. AUTO CO. 

AUTOMOBILES 

Accessories— Supplies— Repairing a Specialty 
MINDEN, NEBRASKA 



Phone 73 



Res. Phone 327 



LARS GUNDERSEN 

DEALER IN 

Overland, Mitchell and Rambler Cars 

Supplies and Accessories 
Repairs of all Kinds. Gasoline Station 



Phone Red 98 



MINDEN, NEB. 



The Humphrey Hotel 

EARL B. MOONEY, Proprietor 
MINDEN. NEBRASKA 

Special attention given tourists. Large parties 
pl ease phone ahead and good rooms will be 
reserved. 



AMERICAN PLAN. $2.00 PER DAY 



L. T. PEDLEY 

Druggist 

Everything in Medicines and Medicinal 

Supplies. All Up-to-Date Advertised Goods 

Fine Confections 

and Soda Fountain Refreshments 

The Rexall Store West Side of Square 

MINDEN, NEBR. 



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Pop. 200. Alt. 2.094 ft. 

13.1 W. to Minden, 15.9 E. to Ju- 
ni.Tta, 441.5 W. to Denyer, 190.8 E. 
to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

HOTELS — Commercial Hotel, Eur. 

REPAIRS— iW. Steinhacli. 

GAS — Stephen Scliultz, L. R. Con- 
verse, G. F. Veith. 



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JUtflATA, NEBE. 

Pop. 471. Alt. 1,971. ft. 

15.9 W. to Heartwell, 5.7 E. to 

Hastings, 457.4 W. to Denver, 

174.9 B. to Omaha. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 
HOTELS — Juniata Hotel, Am. 
GARAGE— F. E. Hewitt. 
GAS AND OILS— J. J. Glsh & Co., 

Hardware. 



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STITT MOTOR CAR CO 

Everything for the Tourist 
Best Equipped Garage 

GASOLINE— REPAIRING 
BOTH TELEPHONES 

2d St. and Burlington Ave. Hastings, Nebr. 


E. A. BRANDES 

STATE AGENT 

OVERLAND CARS 

OFFICIAL- A. A. A. GARAGE 

Largest and Best Equipped Garage in the City 
Special attention to Tourists 

FULL LINE OF SUPPLIES 

Around the Corner from the Bostwick HA^TINfA NFR 
Hotel on Third and Denver Ave. HHJIIIIUJ, lUU. 


HAVE IT FIXED AT HASTINGS 

Automobile Tops, Automobile Cushions, 

Automobile Straps. 

J. H. HANEY & COMPANY 


HASTINGS 
VULCANIZING CO. 

Automobile Tire 
Repairing 

The Only Fully Equipped 
Shop in the West 

BOTH PHONES 

101 No. Lincoln Ave. 

LINCOLN, NEB. 


KISTER 
GARAGE 

Most Modern in We^ 


Make them belter than nevir; your trunks, bags, suit 

cases, anything and everything made HERE. 

We make them. We sell them. We fix them 


Resting Room for 
Tourists 


J. H. HANEY & COMPANY 

Wholesale Harness, Trunks, Bags, Automobile Repairs 

CORNER DENVER AVENUE and 2nd STREET 

HAVE IT FIXED NOW 


Expert Repairing Promptly 
Done 

610-12 West First Street 
HASTINGS. NEB. 



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A. H. JONES 
BIG GARAGE 



BEST EQUIPPED 
SHOP 

819 First Slreel- 



BEST REPAIF 
SERVICE 



HASTINGS, NEBRASKA 



-Half Block South of Main Road 



A. L. CLARKE. President 
F. C. BABCOCK. V.ce-Pres. W, A.TAYLOR, Cashier 

First National Bank 

HASTINGS. NEBRASKA 

Capital, Surplus and Undivided Profits 
$450,000.00 

Largest banking business in Nebraska outside of Omaha 
South Omaha and Lincoln 



HOTEL BOSTWICK 

H. C. HAVERLY, Manager 

Auto Parties Patronage Solicited 

Rates: $2.00, $2.50 and $3.00 per Day 
American Plan 



HASTINGS, 



NEBRASKA 



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HASTINGS, NEBR. 

op. 9,338. Alt. 1, 932 ft. 

!7 W. to Juniata. 17.3 E. to Har- 
vard, 463.1 W. to Denver, 169.2 E. 
to Omaha. 

jilstance measurefl by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

tOTEIiS— Hotel Bostwlck, Am., .?2. 
52.50, $3, Cor. St. Joe Ave. and 
W. 2nd St.; Hotel Lindell, Eur., 
75c and $1., Cor. 1st and Lincoln 

iAve. ; Klein Hotel, Eur. 75c and 
$1, next to Postofflce. 

fAKAGES — A. H. Jones, First and 

I Burlington; Kister's Garage, stor- 
age 50c, West First St.; E. A. 
Brandes, storage 50c., Cor. Tbird 
and Denver Ave.; Stitt Motor Car 
Co., storage 50c, Second and Bur- 
lington Ave. 



"Where the Tourist Can Feel at Home" 




DEPARTMENT STORE 

Everything for the Tourist 




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Pop. 1,102 Alt. 1,770 ft, 

17.3 W. to Hastings, 12.7 E. to Sut- 
ton, 480.4 W. to Denver, 151.0 B,; 
to Omaha. 
Distance measured by Warner Autc 

Meter. 
HOTE1.S— Hotel Harvard, Am., $2 
GAKAGES — J. Schwabauer, storage 
50c, G. W. Turner, storage 50c. 



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OCCID[NTAL HOT[L 

SUTTON. NEB. 

Opposite Post Office 



Clean, Comfortable and 
Homelike 



Tourists Always Welcome 



DRAFTS 

SUTTON 

NATIONAL 

BANK 

at Postoffice 



Sutton's Official Garage 




The official recognition by the A. A. A. gives 

you perfect assurance that your wants in 

repairs and auto supplies will be 

Competently, Judiciously and Honestly loohed After. 

If you need anything while in our territory, 
you will be pleased by the service at the 

SUTTON GARAGE 

Local Long Distance Phone 266 

SUTTON, : : NEBRASKA 



DRAFTS 
SUTTON 

NATIONAL 

BANK 

at Postoffice 



SUTTON HOTEL 

New Brick. Steam Heal. Electric 
Lighis. The best Meals. Rales 
$2.00 per day including free baths. 
Headquarters for Iravelin g _ men . 
Phone or write for room — day in ad- 
vance if [Dossible. 



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SUTTON, NEBB. 

Pop. 1,702 Alt. 1.676 ft. 

12.7 W. to Harvard, S.2 E. to Graf- 
ton, 403.1 W. to Denver, 139.2 E. to 
Omalia. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Jleter. 

HOTELS— Sntton Hotel, Am. 
0pp. Burlington station; Occiden- 
tal Hotel, Am. $2., 0pp. P. O. 

GARAGES— Sutton Garage, 1 blk. N. 
% blk. W. of Burlington Sta.; Van 
Patten & Scbwertfeger, rear, of Oc- 
cidental Hotel. 




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GRAFTON, NEBR. 

Pop. 353 Alt. 1,684 ft. 

8 2 W. to Sutton, 7.7 E. to Fair- 
mont, 501.3 W. to Denver, 131.0 
E. to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 



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' -READY APRIL I, 1912 ^ 



IOWA OFFICIAL TRANS-CONTINENTAL ROUTE: RIVER-TO-RIVER GUIDE: Davenport, Des Moines 

Clinton to Omaha, 50^. to Omaha, 50?'. 

M/->D-rLj irw^i \ Difc D • J r-L- u c- I-O-A-SHORT LINE : Davenport to Omaha, 50^. 

NOKIH IOWA F K.h : Prairie du Chien to bioux „„„ ..„..,, ^-^ „„„„^ „„. „ , . ,,,- .,„.^ 

F-lls 50c' DES MOINES, FT. DODGE, SPIRIT LAKE AND 

SIOUX FALLS, 50)2'. 
HAWKEYE HIGHWAY: Dubuque to Sioux City, 50>^. OMAHA-DENVER TRANS-CONTINENTAL ROUTE: 

rtf T TT^ y-^r> A cc r>r>L\r\ nyi ■ n t- r- Omaha, Nebraska City to Denver, $1.00, 

BLUE GRASS ROAD: Muscatine, Burlington, Ft. rJAKIr^oA cDirr-r>iT; a v i^ iv/i ■ /- l ■ r- 

Madison to Omaha, 50^. PANORA SPEEDWAY: Des Moines to Guthne Cen- 

ter, Jefferson, 50?. 
WAUBONSIE TRAIL : Ft. Madison, Keokuk to Omaha, INTER-STATE TFIAIL : Des Moines to St. Joe. Kansas 

Lincoln, 50?. City, Ft. Leavenworth, 50^. 

HUEBINGER'S AUTOMOBILE AND GOOD ROAD ATLAS OF IOWA 
"The Perfect Road Guide;" Price, $10.00 

At Stationers or mailed on receipt of the price by the publishers. 

IOWA PUBLISHING COMPANY, (Inc.) 

DES MOINES. IOWA 



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The Home of 
the Tourist 




Where you will find a full line of accessories, TWO expert machinists ; 
and repairing facilities that make our GARAGE A I and as good (if 
not the best) between Omaha and Denver. 

Our prices are standard and the same to all. We w^ant you to be 
our guest when passing over the TRANS-CONTINENTAL. 

If for any reason you are delayed at this place, and prefer the 
benefit of a cool place, we are located just across the street from a 
small, but beautiful park. 

When near our GARAGE and assistance is necessary, call from I 
any phone and w^e will meet you in a very few minutes. On our 
floor at all times you can see the standard makes of AUTOS which 
carry factory guarantees. 

Complete line of DIAMOND rubber goods which need no ad- 
vertising. The latest OXY-ACETYLENE WELDING MACHINE. 
Forge and Lathe work of all kinds. 

The same town, the same name, nowr and always. 

BROWN AUTO COMPANY 

Garages: Fairmont and Geneva, Nebraska 



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FAIBMOINT, IVEBB. 

Pop. 1,000 Alt. W41 ft. 

7 7 W. to Grafton, 7.5 B. to Exeter, 
'509.0 W. to Denver, 123.3 E. to 
Omaha. .„ , . 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter 
HOXBIi's— Hotel Clarendon, Am. $2. 

Burlinston Hotel, Am. $1.25, B. 

& M. Hotel, Am. $1.25. 
GARAGE — Brown's Garage, ."V. A. 

A., storage 50e. 





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THE LITTLE GIANT VULCANIZER 

"ALWAYS READY" 



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$5 



COMPLETE 



First Cost 
Last Cost 




NO TROUBLE 
NO FUEL 
NO DIRT 
NO CEMENT 

Attaches 
Permanently 

to 
Exhaust Pipe 



LITTLE GIANT VULCANIZER COMPANY 

OMAHA, NEB. 



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PENNSYLVANIA STOCK. SOLD BY STATE OIL CO.. LINCOLN. NEB. 



GARAGE 



[AST SIDE ON MAIN STREET 



Auto Accessories 
Standard Makes of Tires 



EXETER, NEBRASKA 

The First Division Point on Omaha-Dsnver Ro'd 
West of Lincoln 

Was the first town in the state to have an or- 
ganization for the purpose of demonstrating 
and maintaining good roads. 

Has two lines of railroads, two beautiful parks, good 
schools, auditorium, waterworks and an electric light 
plant furnishing current both day and night. 

Slop and Look f^s Over When Passing Through 



KLOTZ 
PHARMACY 

"The Rexall Store" 



TOyRlSTS' HEADQUARTERS 



Soda Water Spaialties and 
Tourists' Guides 



EXETER IS THE HOME 

OF 

Smith's Adjustable Index Tags 

AND 

Smith's Enameled Steel Signals 

Used for indexing Books and Card Systems 
in the leading oltices of the United States 
and foreign countries. 

fAaORV IN CENTER Of TOWN, fACING OMAHA-DENVER ROAD. 

VISirORS WEICOME See (he large Electric Sign Over the Corner 



ESTABLISHED 1879 

WALLACE & CO. 
BANKERS 

Capital $50,000.00 

WM. H. WALLACE. President 

WM. p. WALLACI':, Cashier 

EXETER, NEBRASKA 



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EXETER, NEBR. 

Pop. 1,000 

7.5 W. to Fairmout, 9.5 E. to 
Friend. 51G.5 W. to Denver. llo.S 
E. to Omfiha. 

HOTEtS — Merchants Hotels, Am. 
.fl.SO to .y-'. 

GARAGE— Spitz & Pflug, storage 
50c. 

REPAIRS— .Tames JIcGliie, black- 
smith. 

GAS & OIIjS— Klotz Pharmacy. 



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FKIEND, NEBR. 

Pop. 1,500 

9.5 W. to Exeter, 20.4 N. E. to Mil- 
ford, 526.0 W. to Denver, 106.3 B. 
to Omaha. 

Distauce measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

HOTELS— Del Corouado, Am. $2. 

GARAGES— Kuhm Bros.. A. A. A., 
storage 50e. Heaguey Bros., stor- 
age 50c. 

BEPAIBS— J. C. Weber. 



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JACOB 


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KAHM 


BROS. 


GARAGE 




Expert Automobile repairing in all its branches, 
and Sundries in the City. The only shop in tli 
thing and everything repaired. 


Only complete stock of Tires 
e state where you can get any- 




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ONE BLOCK SOUTH AND ONE BUOCK 


WEST OF B. & M. DEPOT 


OFFICIAL A. A. A. 


GARAGE 


TOURISTS NA/ELCOME 






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FRIEND. NEBRASKA 





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SAUNE^W^ CO. 




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MILFORD GARAGE CO, 

Tires, Supplies, High Grade Motor Oil 
REPAIR WORK SPECIALIZED 



West Main St. 



MILFORD, NEB. 





MELFOED, NEBB. 

Pop. 1,000 

20.4 S. W. to Prieud, 14.2 B. to 

Emerald, 546.4 W. to Denver, S5.9 

B. to Omaha. 
Distance Measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 
lIOTEIiS— Royal Hotel, Am. $2., 

Grand Hotel, Am. $2. 
GARAGE — Milford Garage Co., stor- 
age 50e. 
BEPAIKS— Harrison & Newton, 

blacksmiths. 
GAS AND OII-S — Keungy & Krnis- 

inger, P. A. Traibert. 



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500.6 W. to Denver, 71.7 E. to 

Omalia. 
Distance measured by Warner Anto 

Meter. 
GAS AND OII-S— General Store & 

P. O. 



155 



LINCOLN 



State Agents 

EVERITT 

K-R-I-T 

WINTON SIX - REPAIRING 



ACCESSORIES 
STORAGE 



AUTOMOBILE COMPANY 

CORNER 11th AND L STREETS 
MOST CONVENIENTLY LOCATED PLACE IN LINCOLN 

^ Fire Proof Building. Separate Entrance and Exit. Bow- 
ser Gasoline Filling System. High Grade Oils and Greases. 

^ Complete Stock Casings, Inner Tubes, Spark Plugs, Bat- 
teries, Etc. 

^ Shop Department Under High Grade Management, Only 
Experienced Mechanics Employed. 



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LINCOLN, NEBR. 

Pop. 44,000 Alt. 1,14S ft. 

7. W. to Emerald, 13.9 N. E. to 
Waverly, 567.6 W. to Denever, 64.7 
B. to Omaha. 

Distance measured by Warner Auto 
Meter. 

HOTELS— Ltndell Hotel, Eur. $1. 
up, 13th & M. St.. Savoy Hotel, 
Eur. $1. up, 1042 P St. 

GARAGE — Lincoln Auto Co., stor- 
age 50c, 335 S. 11th St., O. Street 
Garage, 24th & O. St., H. H. Dil- 
lon Garage, S. llth Bet. L. & M. 
Sts., B. B. Mockett Auto Co., 
1209-11 N. St. 

KEPAIKS— Standard Auto Tire Co., 
234 S. llth St. 




157 



UGH SPEED Al JXO OIL. 



A DECARBONIZED OIL REFINED FROM 



AUTO 3420 



BELL F597 



FREE AIR 



AT THE 



STANDARD AUTO TIR[ CO. 



234 So. Eleventh St., Lincoln, Neb. 



TIRE REPAIRING 

We also carry a Complete Stock of Firestone Tires 
end Tubes 



NEW LINDELL HOTEL 




t-ies 



I3tli and M St. LINCOLN, NEB. 

European Plan. Rates from $1 up. 
OHicially A. A. A. Endorsed. 



H. H. DILLON COMPANY 

Distributors 

HUDSON "33" 

In Nebraska and Kansas 

Courteous, Fair Treatment Accorded Tourists 
329-331 South llthSt. Lincoln, Nebraska 



SAVOY HOTEL 



European 

Special Appointments for Autoists 

Cafe open until 6:30 a. m. to 1 1:30 p. m. 

Rooms from 75c to $3.00 

L. L. LINDSEY, Prop 



158 



NOTE— The road north at 27th and O St. for Omaha. East on O St. to Nebraska City. 
For continuation to Nebraska City see page ^"S. 



_MeA{. 



A. SOSS L. VAN DOREN 

O STREET GARAGE 

A uiomohiles— -Supplies 

OPEN DAY AND 2346 O Street 

Lincoln, Nebraska 




159 



HAVELOCK, NEBR. 

(Suburb of Lincoln) 
Po". 3,200 
HOTELS — Commercial Hotel, John 

son's Hotel. 
GARAGE— Hill & Land. 




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WAVERLY, NEBB. 

Pop. 300 Alt. 1,131 ft. 

13.9 S. W. to Lincoln, 6.2 N. E. to 

Greenwood, 581.5 W. to Denver, 

50.8 B. to Omaha. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 
HOTEtS— Hotel Waverly. 
REPAIRS— Eelner & Cope, black- 
smltlis. 



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GREENWOOD, NEBR. 

Pop. 400 Alt. 1,12.5 ft. 

6.2 S. W. to Waverly. 9.4 N. E. to 

Ashland, 587.7 W. to Denver, 44.6 

E. to Omaha. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 



162 





RATES Oi^ TOLL ASHLAND 
PLATTE RIVER BRIDGE CO. 
Each person on foot, on bicycle 

or in vehicle $.05 

Children under twelve years of 
age when accompanied by 

parents or guardian Free 

Horse and rider lo 

Motorcycle and rider 15 

One-horse vehicle and driver. . .20 
Two-horse vehicle and driver. . .20 
Three-horse vehicle and driver.. .35 
Four-h^orse vehicle and driver.. .50 
Horses or cattle, led or driven. .10 
Calves, sheep, goats or hogs, led 

or driven, each 05 

Huckster, live poultry, patent 
medicine, peddler, each wagon 

and driver 1.00 

Emigrant wagons with driver.. 1.00 

For each additional person 05 

.\utoinobile and Cliauffeur 50 

For eacia additional person 05 

Thrasher, separator, team and 

driver 2.50 

Corn sheller, team and driver.. 1.50 



163 



The Ashland Platte River Bridge 


HOTEL SELMA 

American Plan - $2.00 per day- 
Good meals. Hot and cold baths. 

J. J. Gorman, Prop. 

ASHLAND - - - NEB. 




A fine steel structure, is 
located three miles north 
east of Ashland, on the 

SHORKST AND B[ST ROUTE 
BETWEEN OMAHA and LINCOLN 








DES MOINES DAVENPORT 
CHICAGO 

TAKE THE FAMOUS 

RIVER to RIVER ROAD 

OMAHA TO DAVENPORT 


[o] [o] [o] [o] [o] 


GUIDES AT STATIONERS— GARAGES 
THE IOWA PUB. CO., Des Moines, Iowa 









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ASHLAND, NEBR. 

Pop. 2,000 

).4 S. W. to Greenwood, 7. 3 N. E. 

to Melia, 597.1 W. to Denver, 35.2 

B. to Omaha. 
Distance measured by Warner Auto 

Meter. 
HOTEIS— Hotel Selma. Am. $3. 

Martin Hotel, Am. $1.50 Central 

Hotel, Am. $1.00. 
BABAGES— M. W. Urch, storage 

50e, Wm. Vallier. 
BLACKSMITHS— F. B. Marey, 

.Tullus Olesen. 
OliS— Jeff Smith. 



For bridge toursee.'page 163. mwi' 






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MELIA, NEBR, . 

7.3 S. W. to Ashland. 4.4 N. B. to | 

Gretna, 604.4 W. to Denver, 27.9 I 
E. to Omaha. 



For bridge toll 
see page 16-3 



166 




GBETNA, NEBB. 

4.4 S. W. to Melia, 11.0 N". H. to 
Millard. 60S.8 W. to Denver, 23.5 
E. to Omaha. 



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Model road work on the way to 
Ashland. 



168 




MILL A ED, NEBB. 

11.0 S. W. to Gretna. 12.5 N. E. to 
Omaha, 010.8 W. to Denver. 



169 



Paxton- Mitchell Company 

GARAGE 



The Largest and Only Firo-Proof Garage 
in the West. Storage capacity 125 oara. 
Machine work, vulcanizing, accessories 
and oils. Always Open, Night and Day. 



2010-12-14-1() HARNEY ST, 



OMAHA. NEB 



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ATTENTION TOURISTS 

FOR AUTO SUPPLIES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION COME TO THE 

WESTERN AUTOMOBILE SUPPLY CO. 



1920-22 Farnam St. 
OMAHA. NEBRASKA 

TELEPHONES: 
Douglas 3786 A 1714 



The Largest Automobile Accessory and Supply House in the West 

ALWAYS OPEN 
All Standard Brands of Tires Tire and Radiator Repairs 

OUR MOTTO: 



GOOD GOODS 



PROMPT DELIVERY 



RIGHT PRICED 



171 



THE "VAC" mm 

The Modern Garage 
Equipment 

Fiilly automatic, always 
ready, no labor required, 
no pressure to ( anse 
leakage and no watir in 
your gasoline. If inter- 
ested ask for particulars 
from 

The "Vac" liquid [quipnient Co. 

Cedar Rapids, Iowa 



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European Absolutely 

Plan Fireproof 

Relnforcecl Steel 
Concrete Construction 

THE NEW 

HENSHAW 

T. J.OBRIEN, Prop. 

Modern in Every Detail 
All Outside Rooms Connecting 

With Bath 
Elegant Cafes and Rathskellar 
Official A. A. A. Headquarters 

ISthandFARNAMSTS. 
OMAHA. NEBRASKA 




The Famous 

V-RAY 
SPARK 
PLUG 

"Guaranteed 

For Life. ' 
At your dealer 
or direct. 
Tlie only Keli- 
alile four-point 
Plug on the 
Market. 
PRICE $1.25 EACH 

Marshalltown 

Motor Material 

Mfg. Co. 

Marshilltowa, Iowa 



P Pennants & Auto Robes 

with your monogram or 
special design; or we 
can supply you from 
our stock of school and 
college novelties. 

If your dealer cannot sup- 
ply you with Tilden goods 
write for our catalog. 

All auto dealers should 
carry our pennants and 
robes. 

Tilden Brothers & Company, ^l 





Touring Car $2,000. Fully Equipped F. O. B. 
Des Moines. One Chassis. Seven Body Types. 



We don't have 
to make a single 
apology for this 
car. 

It contradicts 
its moderate 
"n every 
of con- 
struction, style 
and finish. 



COLE MOTOR CARGO. Itsacaryou 

Distributers for Iowa and Nebraska will be 

4.13 12TH STREET proud I o 

DES MOINES, IOWA own 



172 



OMAHA, NEBB. 

12.5 S. W. to Millard, G32.3 W. to 
Denver. 



Moines, 
DavenportftChicago' 
■ "lOuxCily ' 



Start: 



0.9 
1.7 



2.1 
2.3 




To Lincoln. Hasting; 
Sulton,M'^Cool<,.*T+^' 
Denver, Colo ' ' 



GOING WEST 

loth and Farnam streets, go west on Farnain street lo 

Puritan laundry at, 

2sth street: turn left and continue to. 

Woolworth Avenue, turn right; pass Hanscom Park 

on left and just after crossing trolley at 

farthest 

end of Park; turn left for two blocks 

turn right onio Lincoln Avenue (Center street) : 

crossing viaduct (a.s) ; and passing school 

on right ( 3.6 ) ; continue with main road to 

Concordia Park ; see map pago 170 



173 



THE LARGEST AND BEST EQUIPPED GARAGE 
AND REPAIR SHOP IN THE WEST 

OPEN DAY AND NIGHT 



FRANKLIN 

PEERLESS 
HUDSON "33" 
MOTOR CARS 




2205-7 Famam Street- 



GUY L. SMITH 

PHONE DOUGLAS 1970 



-Omaha, Nebraska 



174 



100% PROFIT PER WORKING DAY 

GARAGE AND REPAIR MEN REAP THE HARVEST 



Costs 16 Cents a day to 
run it! 

Takes 15 minutes to fix 
5 tubes! 

Takes 45 minutes to fix 2 
casings! 

Jses lierosene foi- fuel! 

Cures with live dry 
steam! 

Safety valve set at sixty 
pounds! 

Cannot burn your work! 

A boy can lun it! 

Furnished ready to run! 




Air bags free! 

Bead strips free! 

Cavities and bead strips 
polished like glass! 

Smooth work always! 

Takes five tubes at a 
time! 

Takes 3 in., 31/2 in., 4 in., 
4Va in. casings! 

Costs $90 on factory! 

Takes 10 hours to pay 
for it! 

Better buy one! 



THE AMERICAN COMBINATION VULCANIZER 



THE BAUM IRON COMPANY 



OMAHA. NEBRASKA 



175 



'*"GAwt tear^it'OFF" ^^ 




The Rubber Putly-.Repairs All 

Rubber Articles. Satisfaction 

Positively Guaranteed 

"TITK WAD" mis all holes, tears, cuts, 
and broken seams, in anything made of 
rubber, automobile inner tubes, and cas- 
inRS. hot water bafrs. pyrosraphy bulbs, 
syringes, rubber gloves, rubber shoes, 
rain coats, garden hose, etc., etc. 

Kach repair is permanent and will 
not tear otT with heat or hard service . 
Does away with the expense of vulcan- 
izing. "TITE-WAD" repairs retiuire no 
lieat. no tools but your hands, and cost 
on the average four cents each. A sav- 
ing of 96 per cent on all repair work. 

The out- tit consists of acan of "TITE- 
WAD" CEMENT, a can of "TITE-WAD" 
PUTTY, enough to make 50 average re- 
pairs, a bo.K of powdered mica, a No. 2 
iSlowout patch and a piece of emery 
cloth, directions, etc . all put up in a neat 
wooden box. 

With a "TITE-WAD" outfit you can 
make repairs anywhere at 1-10 the cost of 
vulcanization. Simple, quick and econo- 
mical. Price $2.00. Sold at Auto, Hard- 
ware and Accessory dealers, or sent di- 
rect on receipt of price. 



PAGE-LESTER COMPANY 



126 W. Van Buren St. 



Chicago, 111. 



[he Highest roMOFTERrKTioN 






c^INGRAVlNG CO. 



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'Ill, ; 

il'' 554 WEST ADAMS ST. Nj 

CHICAGO — 



I DES MOINES, DAVENPORT, 
•l|,, niNNEAPOUS, ,,|)|l 

'' DETROIT. 

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^ Huebinger's Automobile Atlas 

THE PERFECT ROAD GUIDE 

Complete Directions for 

Touring All Iowa Highways 



176 







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OVERLAND TRAIL 


LINCOLN - NEBRASKA CITY 

CONNECTING WITH 

WAUBONSIE TRAIL 

FOR POINTS EAST 

KEOKUK - CANTON - INDIANAPOLIS 









177 




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178 







EAGLE, NEBE. 

13. W. to Lincoln, S.7 S. to Pal- 
myra, No nccomia)odation,R. 



179 




PALMYRA, WEBB. 

8.7 N. to Eagle, 9.4 E. to UnadlUa. 

HOTEI.S — J. W. Kaiser. 

OARAGES— Stewart Bros., Co., G. 
C. Trimble, Livery Stable. 

BliACKSMITH— Lyon & Monroe. 

GA8 AND OILS — Chas. Morrell. 

9.4 W. to Palmyra, 6.5 B. to Syra- 
cuse. 

HOTELS — Commercial Hotel, Am. 
?2. 

BLACKSMITH— O. M. Sasseen. 



180 




9.4 W. to ralmjra.G.o E. to Syracuse. 
HOTELS— Commercial Hotel. Am. $2 
BLACKSMITH— O. M. Sasseen. 



SYRACUSE, SEBK. 

^ Pop. 1,000. 

C.5 W. to Dnadilla, S.S E. to Dun- 
bar. 

iroTEI/S— Review, Am. $2. 

GARAGES— E. L. I'ratt Auto Co., 
storage 50c, 5th St., A. C. Storer 
& Son, storage 50c, 4th St. 



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DUNBAR, NEBk. 

S.8 W. to Syracuse, lO.-g B to 
Nebraska City. No accommoda- 
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R. A. Duff & Co. 
MOTOR CARS 

Garage and Supplies. Hotel in Connection 

Nebraska City, Nebraska. 



Frontier Hotel 

European 
GARAGE IN CONNECTION 

Special Attention Paid to Motorists, 



Nebraska City, 



Nebraska 



184 



NEBRASKA CITY, NEBB. 

Pop. 9,000 

10.3 W. to Dunbar. 56.4 W. to Lin- 
coln. 

HOTELS— Frontier Hotel, Eur., 
Grand Hotel, Am. 

G.4BAGES— R. A. Duff Garage, stor- 
age 50e; Swalley Garage, stor- 
age 50c; Markel Garage, storage 
50c. 



Jb Keokuk Indianapolis 
'KOes Moines, Chicago 





The Kelly Portable "Motor Inn" 

Constructeu entirely of steel and iron. Fire and 
weather proof. Neat and attractive in appearance. 
Can be shipped anywhere knocked down at a low 
freight rate and quickly erected by inexperienced 
help. We make a speci.dty of 

Portable Metal Buildings 
For All Purposes 

We also build a complete line of Road Graders, 
Drags, Cement Culvert Molds, Metal Culverts, Etc. 
Write or call on us for full particulars on 

Township and County 
Road Supplies 



THE KELLY MFG. CO., 



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186 




THE CAR OF 



STERLING WORTH 



A MIDLAND Model--L-40 was driven over 15,000 miles since August ist, 1911 in laying out the 
good roads published in this guide. 

IWIIDLAND Model L-Ill. 40 h. p., 115 inch wheel base, $2,000, fully equipped. Midland Model R, a car-de-luxe. 
Wheel base 1 1 8 Inches, 40 h. p. Full equipment includes the Midland's Compressed Air Self-Cranking Device, which is 
also used to pump air into the tires. Price $2,750. 

Write for a copy of our handsome 1912 catalog. It will tell you the complete story about this wonderful car. 



MIDLAND MOTOR CO. 

MOLINE, ILL. 



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